FICTION
1. The 17th Suspect, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown) The latest installment in the Women's Murder Club series. Detective Lindsay Boxer searches for a killer in San Francisco.
2. The Fallen, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central) Amos Decker, known as the Memory Man, puts his talents toward solving a string of murders in a Rust Belt town.
3. Twisted Prey, by John Sandford. (Putnam) The 28th book in the Prey series. A federal marshal looks into the actions of a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
4. The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner. (Scribner) A woman is separated from her son when she begins two consecutive life sentences.
5. The Perfect Mother, by Aimee Molloy. (Harper) A missing baby unnerves a group of new mothers who meet in Prospect Park twice a week.
6. The Forgotten Road, by Richard Paul Evans. (Simon & Schuster) The second book in the Broken Road series. After surviving a plane crash, a man decides to walk the length of Route 66.
7. Adjustment Day, by Chuck Palahniuk. (Norton) Young men take on geriatric politicians who are pushing the country toward a third world war.
8. Before We Were Yours, by Lisa Wingate. (Ballantine) A South Carolina lawyer learns about the questionable practices of a Tennessee orphanage.