Fiction

1. “A Thousand Splendid Suns,” by Khaled Hosseini (Riverhead, $25.95). A friendship between two women in Afghanistan against the backdrop of 30 years of war; from the author of “The Kite Runner.”

2. “The Overlook,” by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $21.99). The Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch tangles with the FBI and Homeland Security as he tries to solve the case of a murdered physicist with access to radioactive materials.

3. “The Good Guy,” by Dean Koontz (Bantam, $27). In a case of mistaken identity, an ordinary man finds himself at the center of a murder plot.

4. “For One More Day,” by Mitch Albom (Hyperion, $21.95). A troubled man gets a last chance to reconnect and restore his relationship with his dead mother.

5. “The 6th Target,” by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown, $27.99). In San Francisco, children and their nannies are disappearing, and Detective Lindsay Boxer and the Women’s Murder Club investigate.

6. “Invisible Prey,” by John Sandford (Putnam, $26.95). The Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport finds connections between the murder of several elderly residents and a political scandal.