'The Scottish Prisoner'

A Dance With Dragons


A Song of Ice and Fire, Book Five

George R.R. Martin

Bantam, $35

The Seven Kingdoms are again under threat in Martin's epic saga that began with "A Game of Thrones."

A Dark and Lonely Place

A Novel

Edna Buchanan

Simon & Schuster, $26

When a murder brings together a Miami homicide detective and a femme fatale, the pair mirrors an outlaw couple pillaging frontier Miami more than a century earlier.

The Drop

Michael Connelly

Little, Brown, $27.99

The clock is ticking on Harry Bosch's LAPD retirement as he investigates a Chateau Marmont death and another case involving DNA that means the killer would have been 8 years old at the time of the crime.

The Exorcist

40th Anniversary Edition

William Peter Blatty

Harper, $25.99

The author has polished and introduced new material into his chilling story of demonic possession, first published in 1971.

The Forgotten Affairs of Youth