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. The High Tide Club, by Mary Kay Andrews. (St. Martin's) An eccentric millionaire enlists attorney Brooke Trappnell to fix old wrongs, which sets up a potential scandal and murder.
4. 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.
5. The Crooked Staircase, by Dean Koontz. (Bantam) Rogue FBI agent Jane Hawk is on the lam from the government and a secret group causing a rash of murder-suicides.
6. Warlight, by Michael Ondaatje. (Knopf) In Britain after World War II, two teenage siblings are taken under the tutelage of a mysterious man and his cronies who served during the war.
7. Before We Were Yours, by Lisa Wingate. (Ballantine) A South Carolina lawyer learns about the questionable practices of a Tennessee orphanage.
8. Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng. (Penguin Press) An artist upends a quiet town outside Cleveland.