FICTION
1. DEAD RECKONING, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $27.95.) Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse seeks the culprit in a firebombing.
2. BURIED PREY, by John Sandford. (Putnam, $27.95.) Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport investigates the murders of two girls who were kidnapped in 1985 and whose bodies have just been found.
3. 10TH ANNIVERSARY, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women's Murder Club race to find a missing baby.
4. THE SIXTH MAN, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central, $27.99.) The lawyer for an alleged serial killer is murdered, and two former Secret Service agents are on the case.
5. 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.
6. SIXKILL, by Robert B. Parker. (Putnam, $26.95.) In the final Spenser novel, a woman dies in an actor's hotel room.
7. CALEB'S CROSSING, by Geraldine Brooks. (Viking, $26.95.) A Puritan missionary's daughter forms a bond with a scholarly Indian.
8. THE FIFTH WITNESS, by Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Defense lawyer Mickey Haller represents a woman facing home foreclosure and who is accused of killing a banker.