New releases for week of Oct. 20

  Patricia Cornwell fans get ready!
  In “The Scarpetta Factor,” the 17th thriller featuring Kay Scarpetta, the CNN forensic analyst becomes more of a television personality, appearing on-air to discuss sensational cases. Her increased visibility leads to a bizarre series of events, including a threat to her life, so when her producer wants her to launch her own television show, Scarpetta fears the cost of her growing fame.
  Also expected out this week is “What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures” by Malcolm Gladwell. This collection of some of the journalist’s most famous New Yorker pieces includes his investigation into why there are a variety of mustards but only one kind of ketchup, a profile of inventor Ron Popeil, and a look at the employers’ love of personality tests, as well as other topics.
  Also hitting shelves: “The Absolute Death” graphic novel by Neil Gaiman; “American Civil War: A Military History” by John Keegan; "Blood Game” by Iris Johansen; “The Christmas Cookie Club” by Ann Pearlman; “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope That Matters” by Timothy Keller; “The Day of the Pelican” by Katherine Paterson; “Eating the Dinosaur” by Chuck Klosterman; “Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through the Pearly Gates: Using Philosophy (And Jokes!) to Explore Life, Death, the Afterlife, and Everything in Between” by Thomas Cathcart; “I Am the New Black” by Tracy Morgan; “Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy: A Feast of 175 Regional Recipes” by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich; “Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction” by Kurt Vonnegut; “The Museum of Innocence” by Orhan Pamuk; “Shades of Blue” by Karen Kingsbury; “Southern Lights” by Danielle Steel; “SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance” by Steven D. Levitt; and “Vintage Caper” by Peter Mayle.