KILL SHOT

by Vince Flynn

(Atria Books.)

Mitch Rapp, a C.I.A. super-agent hunting down perpetrators of the Pan Am Lockerbie bombing, finds himself caught in a dangerous trap.

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CATCH ME

by Lisa Gardner

(Penguin Group.)

A woman asks the Boston detective D. D. Warren to prevent her being murdered in four days’ time.

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DEFENDING JACOB

by William Landay

(Delacorte Press.)

An assistant district attorney’s life is shaken when his 14-year-old son is accused of murder.

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THE HELP

by Kathryn Stockett

(Penguin Group.)

A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.

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HOME FRONT

by Kristin Hannah

(St. Martin’s Press.)

A woman’s husband and children are challenged when she is deployed to Iraq.

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EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE

by Jonathan Safran Foer

(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing.)

A 9-year-old boy searches New York City for the lock that fits a key belonging to his father, who died on Sept. 11.

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PRIVATE: #1 SUSPECT

by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

(Grand Central.)

When a former lover’s dead body is found in his bed, Jack Morgan, a former Marine and the head of an investigative firm, is accused of murder.

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THE SWEETEST THING

by Barbara Freethy

(Barbara Freethy.)

An entrepreneur must deal with his dotty grandfather, the sudden death of his ex-wife and the appearance of a beautiful redhead.

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THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE

by Stieg Larsson

(Knopf Doubleday Publishing.)

In the second volume of the Millennium trilogy, a Swedish hacker becomes a murder suspect.

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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

by Stieg Larsson

(Knopf Doubleday Publishing.)

A hacker and a journalist investigate the disappearance of a Swedish heiress 40 years earlier.

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THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST

by Stieg Larsson

(Knopf Doubleday Publishing.)

The third volume of the Millennium trilogy, about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.

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