FICTION
1. The Woman in the Window, by A.J. Finn. (Morrow) A recluse who drinks heavily and takes prescription drugs may have witnessed a crime across from her Harlem townhouse.
2. Origin, by Dan Brown. (Doubleday) A symbology professor goes on a perilous quest with a beautiful museum director.
3. The Rooster Bar, by John Grisham. (Doubleday) Three students at a sleazy for-profit law school hope to expose the student-loan banker who runs it.
4. Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng. (Penguin Press) An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland.
5. Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward. (Scribner) A 13-year-old boy comes of age in Mississippi while his black mother takes him and his toddler sister to pick up their white father, who is being released from prison.
6. Robicheaux, by James Lee Burke. (Simon & Schuster) A bereaved detective confronts his past and works to clear his name when he becomes a suspect in the murder of the man who killed his wife.
7. Unbound, by Stuart Woods. (Putnam) The 44th book in the Stone Barrington series.
8. The People vs. Alex Cross, by James Patterson. (Little, Brown) Detective Alex Cross takes on a case even though he has been suspended from the department and taken to federal court to stand trial on murder charges.