In the fiction ranks, T. Jefferson Parker has a new police procedural, “The Fallen.” David Edmond and John Eidinow concentrate their energies on the epic intellectual battle between philosophers Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume in “Russeau’s Dog.” In paperbacks, look for Elizabeth Gaffney’s “Metropolis.” Coming next month, Walter Mosley has a new novel, “Fortunate Son,” which tells the story of two very different young men.
FICTION
The Fallen, by T. Jefferson Parker, William Morrow, 323 pages, $24.95|A San Diego homicide detective suffers a head injury but as a result, when people talk he sees blocks of color that indicate whether the person is lying.
Purity of Blood, by Arturo Perez-Reverte, Putnam, 267 pages, $23.95|The second of Perez-Reverte’s series featuring 17th century swashbuckler, Captain Alatriste. A father and two brothers accompany the good captain as he attempts to rescue their daughter and sister.
Magic Hour, by Kristin Hannah, Ballantine, 391 pages, $23.95|A renowned child psychologist tries to jumpstart her career with the case of a child who is found uncommunicative after living in the forest.
NONFICTION
Rousseau’s Dog, by David Edmonds and John Eidinow, Ecco, $340 pages, $25.95 |The authors of “Witt- genstein’s Poker” bring to life the bad blood between two of the Age of Enlightenment’s greatest thinkers, Jean- Jacques Rousseau and David Hume.
Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America, by James Green, Pantheon, 383 pages, $26.95|The author re-creates the Haymarket riots in Chicago and the resulting trials, which mesmerized the rest of America.
The Kurds: A People in Search of Their Homeland, by Kevin McKiernan, St. Martin’s, 390 pages, $27.95|The Kurds are the largest ethnic group in the world without a homeland. The author traces their history since 1975, a time that includes, war, terrorism and genocide.
PAPERBACKS
Metropolis, by Elizabeth Gaffney, 461 pages, $13.95|A young immigrant works to clear his name after he is accused of setting fire to P.T. Barnum’s stable. In the process, he becomes involved with a gang and falls in love.
Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda, by Sean Naylor, Penguin, 425 pages, $15|The author, an eyewitness, tells how the U.S. military barely avoided a catastrophe in the last major battle of the war in Afghanistan.
Oh My Stars, by Lorna Landvik, Ballantine, 389 pages, $13.95|A young girl is traveling by bus to the West Coast to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. Her fortunes change when a family takes her in after the bus crashes in North Dakota.
COMING UP
Fortunate Son, by Walter Mosley, Little Brown, 320 pages, $23.95, April|The story of two boys, one who is white and the recipient of great good fortune, and the other who is black and lame.
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero, by David Moraniss, Simon & Schuster, 416 pages, $26, April|The author of “When Pride Still Mattered” is back with the endearing complete biography of Roberto Clemente the baseball player and humanitarian.
The Attack, by Yasmina Khadra, Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 208 pages, $18.95, May|Already a best seller in Europe, Khadra’s new novel (after “The Swallows of Kabul”) is the story of an Arab-Israeli doctor whose wife is among those killed in a bomb attack. And it looks as if she was the bomber.
