FICTION
1. Turbo Twenty-Three, by Janet Evanovich. (Bantam) Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum juggles the investigation of a crime in an ice cream factory and the two men in her life.
2. No Man's Land, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central) John Puller, a special agent with the Army, searches for the truth about his mother, who disappeared 30 years ago.
3. The Whistler, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) A whistleblower alerts a Florida investigator to judicial corruption involving the Mob and Indian casinos.
4. Night School, by Lee Child. (Delacorte) Jack Reacher becomes involved in an investigation with elite agents from the FBI and CIA.
5. Odessa Sea, by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler. (Putnam) Trying to locate a shipwreck in the Black Sea, NUMA director Dirk Pitt encounters more than he expected.
6. Two by Two, by Nicholas Sparks. (Grand Central) A man who became a single father when his marriage and business collapsed learns to take a chance on a new love.
7. Chaos, by Patricia Cornwell. (Morrow) In the 24th novel in this series, forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta investigates a death that seems to have been (but wasn't) caused by lightning. Is her old nemesis Carrie Grethen involved?
8. The Mistletoe Secret, by Richard Paul Evans. (Simon & Schuster) A man struggling with the aftermath of a divorce sets out to find the anonymous writer of a blog about loneliness and discovers more than he expected.