In the entertaining, action packed, albeit far-fetched, legal thriller “The Rooster Bar,” John Grisham introduces us to third-year law students Mark Frazier, Todd Lucero and Maal Zola, who realize they have been duped into taking out enormous loans to attend Foggy Bottom Law School, a…

 A.J. Finn has written a taut, page-turning thriller that has all the elements of a classic whodunit (on steroids) in “The Woman in the Window” (William Morrow; $26.99) in which Dr. Anna Fox lives alone with her agoraphobia, her wine, her medicine cabinet and her Nikon.

Though they…

Roman Velasco, a successful but temperamental Los Angeles artist, had gone through four other temps before he hired Grace Moore for two weeks. She filled the bill--cool, collected, mid-twenties. He had been looking for someone to field calls and handle the mundane details of correspondence, bills,…