Paperbacks new and noteworthy

■ “Lady in the Lake,” by Laura Lippman. (Morrow/HarperCollins, 384 pp., $16.99.) Times reviewer Stephen King praised this “haunting” novel’s author, whom he called “the closest writer America has to Ruth Rendell,” for “balancing a cracking good mystery with the story of a not always admirable woman working to stand on her own” and for ending with “a totally cool double twist” he said he “never saw coming.”

■ “How to Forget: A Daughter’s Memoir,” by Kate Mulgrew. (Morrow/HarperCollins, 352 pp., $18.99.) The renowned actress’s second family memoir, about caring for her alcoholic father with lung cancer and then for her artist socialite mother with Alzheimer’s, is “a beautiful portrait of a daughter’s love for her parents, packed with sharp, amusing recollections,” according to Times reviewer Dan Marshall.

■ “Patsy,” by Nicole Dennis-Benn. (Liveright, 432 pp., $16.95.) The title character in this “richly imagined” novel by the acclaimed Jamaican author thinks she’s finally escaping violence and oppression as she flees her native country (and leaves her daughter) to follow an “idealized friend and lover,” Cicely, to New York. Once there, she’s forced to work as a nanny for a white family. “Cruelty entwines with care everywhere,” Times reviewer Chelsey Johnson wrote, “from Kingston to Brooklyn.”

■ “Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It,” by Richard Stengel. (Grove, 384 pp., $18.) A former editor of Time magazine shares what he learned as an undersecretary of state in the Obama administration trying to quell disinformation spread by Russia, ISIS and Trump.

■ “Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II,” by Svetlana Alexievich. (Random House, 320 pp., $18.) This “war narrative” by the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature “hews closer to the Brothers Grimm than to Homer,” in the words of Times reviewer Sana Krasikov. As children who were separated from their parents recall being lost, found, reclaimed by relatives and taken in by strangers, “a chilling, enchanted naturalism fills the book’s pages.”

■ “Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration,” by Emily Bazelon. (Random House, 448 pp., $18.) In a “comprehensive examination” of the criminal justice system that appeals to both head and heart, as Times reviewer David Lat put it, Bazelon identifies reformers who can protect the innocent and guard against racial bias.