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1 DEAD IN THE FAMILY, by Charlaine Harris. (Ace, $25.95.) Sookie Stackhouse is exhausted in the aftermath of a Fae war. 1 2
2 HEART OF THE MATTER, by Emily Giffin. (St. Martin’s, $26.99.) The lives of two women — one married to a pediatric plastic surgeon, the other a lawyer and single mother — converge after an accident involving the lawyer’s son.   1
3 FEVER DREAM, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. (Grand Central, $26.99.) The F.B.I. agent Aloysius Pendergast, who has long thought that his wife was killed in an accident, learns that she was actually murdered.   1
4 INNOCENT, by Scott Turow. (Grand Central, $27.99.) When Rusty Sabich’s wife is found dead, Tommy Molto accuses him of murder for the second time, as Turow revisits the characters from “Presumed Innocent.”  3 2
5 THE 9TH JUDGMENT, by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) Detective Lindsay Boxer pursues a killer who’s preying on women and children. 2 3
6 THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s ­Mississippi. 4 59
7 DELIVER US FROM EVIL, by David Baldacci. (Grand Central, $27.99.) Two agents are tracking the same man, a human trafficker who is now dealing in nuclear arms. 5 4
8 THE IMPERFECTIONISTS, by Tom Rachman. (Dial, $25.) Goings-on among the staff of an English-language newspaper in Rome. 13 2
9 MATTERHORN, by Karl Marlantes. (El León Literary Arts/Atlantic Monthly, $24.95.) Marines in Vietnam in 1969.   6
10 LOVER MINE, by J. R. Ward. (New American Library, $25.95.) Book 8 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.