New and noteworthy
USA TODAY’s Jocelyn McClurg scopes out the hottest books on sale each week.
1Hardcore Twenty- Four
by Janet Evanovich ( Putnam, fiction, on sale Tuesday)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: In the latest in a series, New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is dealing with headless corpses that start showing up around town — and an unruly boa constrictor.
THE BUZZ: Evanovich’s Turbo Twenty- Three landed at No. 1 on USA TODAY’s Best- Selling Books list last fall.
2 Growing Up Fisher
by Joely Fisher ( William Morrow, non- fiction, on sale Tuesday)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: The ac- tress looks back at her life as a daughter of Hollywood “royalty” — Eddie Fisher and Connie Stevens — and her career.
THE BUZZ: Fisher writes about losing her sister, Carrie Fisher ( they had the same father), and Carrie’s mom, Debbie Reynolds.
3 End Game
by David Baldacci ( Grand Central, fiction, on sale Tuesday)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: U.S. govern- ment operatives Will Robie and Jessica Reel are called in when their handler, known as Blue Man, disappears, only to uncover a larger threat.
THE BUZZ: Baldacci already had a No. 1 best seller this year with April’s The Fix, part of the “Memory Man” series.
4 Artemis
by Andy Weir ( Crown, fiction, on sale Tuesday)
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: On a city on the moon, twentysomething Jasmine “Jazz” Bashara is a small- time smuggler pulled into a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself.
THE BUZZ: It’s an Indie Next pick of independent booksellers. “A cool and engaging book that is a worthy successor to The Martian,” says Raul Chapa of BookPeople in Austin.
5 Future Home of the Living God
by Louise Erdrich ( Harper, fiction, on sale Tuesday) WHAT IT’S ABOUT: Erdrich turns dystopian in this story about a young pregnant woman fighting for her baby when the world turns upside down after a cataclysmic event. THE BUZZ: “Strikingly rele-vant,” says Publishers Weekly.