FICTION
1. THE FIFTH WITNESS, by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Defense lawyer Mickey Haller represents a woman facing home foreclosure who is accused of killing a banker.
2. THE LAND OF PAINTED CAVES, by Jean M. Auel. (Crown, $30.) The latest volume in a series that began with "The Clan of the Cave Bear," set during the Ice Age.
3. I'LL WALK ALONE, by Mary Higgins Clark. (Simon & Schuster, $25.99.) A woman haunted by the disappearance of her young son discovers that someone has stolen her identity.
4. 44 CHARLES STREET, by Danielle Steel. (Delacorte, $28.) The owner of a Greenwich Village town house takes in boarders and bonds with her tenants.
5. MILES TO GO, by Richard Paul Evans. (Simon & Schuster, $22.) After losing his wife and business, a man sets off on a cross-country journey on foot, but a violent encounter robs him of the ability to walk.
6. LOVER UNLEASHED, by J.R. Ward. (New American Library, $27.95.) Book 9 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
7. CRUNCH TIME, by Diane Mott Davidson. (William Morrow/HarperCollins, $26.99.) Caterer and sleuth Goldy Schulz tries to help a friend whose rental house has been destroyed by arson.
8(x). TOYS, by James Patterson and Neil McMahon. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Hays Baker, a top operative for the Agency of Change and a national hero, suddenly finds himself a fugitive who must fight to save humans from extinction.