as our new release of the week: The Fallen. by T. Jefferson Parker (William Morrow & Co.) Jeff Parker’s new crime novel is a perfect summer read. Interesting. Well-written. Fast-paced, too. The story careens across San Diego and its hero is veteran homicide detective who falls from a tall building and wakes with synesthesia, a “neurological condition where your senses get mixed up.” Detective Robbie Brownlaw explains it this way: “Sometimes when people talk to me, I see their voices as colored shapes provoked by the emotions of the speakers, not by the words themselves. I have what amounts to a primitive lie detector.” Brownlaw doesn’t tell anyone he’s suddenly seeing colors when co-workers and crooks open their mouths, though he admits his condition comes in handy on the job, even as it complicates his troubled home life.