Just finished a fairly ancient Jack Higgins which has been on my "to read" shelf for many years (!) "Drink with the Devil" (1999). A pretty typical generic thriller about a bullion hoist with the IRA in the background. Readable but unmemorable.
Prior to that "Three Weeks to Say Goodbye" by CJ Box (2009), an American author based in Wyoming whom I'd never heard of before. It's an absolute un-putdownable page-turner, I finished it about 3:00 in the morning.
Mrs O read it first and passed it on to me, and I certainly recommend it. It's about a Denver couple who adopt a baby, but there's a hitch in the paperwork, and the biological grand-father, a well-respected judge, gets in touch and issues a demand for the baby back - hence the title and a race against time to uncover shady dealings and the real reason why .....