"Swan Peak" by James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster, $25.95) Another Dave Robicheaux novel, this time set in Montana where the detective is trying to relax on vacation. But murder seems to follow the man. "Palace Council" by Stephen L. Carter (Knopf, $26.95) A suspenseful novel in which murder, manipulation and the radical politics of the '50s, '60s, and '70s cast a long shadow on the Oval Office. The Watermark Pick "Somebody Else's Daughter" by Elizabeth Brundage (Viking, $24.95) Seventeen years after two young drifters give up their infant daughter, he moves to the Berkshires to work at an elite private school -- as his daughter's teacher. Watermark best-sellers ...