Our Best Seller List for 2006

And now, for the bestsellers over the entire year of 2006 at Mystery Lovers Bookshop.

It looks like stopping into the store for an exclusive Pittsburgh event and linking for signed books will put you in the high numbers. Or you would have to be the sought after author of the Venetian mysteries, Donna Leon, the 2006 overall bestseller. A record number of publication parties for local authors of mysteries, thrillers, fiction, nonfiction and cooking books produced “boffo” sales, too. On the paperback side of sales, the bestsellers from May’s Sixteenth Annual Festival of Mystery with 50 authors and over 400 fans scored big. And, of course, the sales for Donna Leon eclipsed all. The trade paperback sales, as always, reflect the tastes and whims of various books groups we supply. In this mix we are certainly happy to have the Pittsburgh Public Schools Parent Readers Group back from hiatus for their reading pleasure. Others in this category came out of the sales we did for the Drue Heinz Lecture Series at Carnegie Music Hall, the Hadassah Annual Meeting and several visiting and linking authors.

Our best wishes to all for a healthy, happy and profitable 2007--with the accent on health!

Hardcover Best Sellers

Have Your Cake and Kill Him Too by Nancy Martin
Dirty Blonde by Lisa Scottoline (paperback avail.)
Through a Glass Darkly by Donna Leon
Every Secret Thing by Lila Shaara
Oops: Twenty Life Lessons from America's Fiascos by Martin Smith and Pat Kiger
Finishing School by Michele Martinez (paperback avail.)
Riding the Air Waves by Eleanor Schano
No Good Deeds by Laura Lippman (paperback)
A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote
Murder Unleashed by Elaine Viets
Aunt Dimity and the Deep Blue Sea by Nancy Atherton

Trade Paperback Best Sellers

Frantic Woman's Guide to Feeding Family and Friends by Mary Jo Rulnick
Bridges of Pittsburgh by Bob Regan and Tim Fabian
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini
Now You See Me by Rochelle Krich
Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellison
Dating Dead Men by Harley Jane Kozak

Paperback Best Sellers

As in previous years, five Donna Leon titles took top spots for paperback sales. We're not listing them in fairness to other mystery writers who aren't Donna Leon.

Don't Be Afraid by Rebecca Drake
Blessed is the Busybody by Emilie Richards
High Heels Are Murder by Elaine Viets
How to Murder a Millionaire by Nancy Martin
With No One as Witness by Elizabeth George
Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die by Nancy Martin
In the Bleak Midwinter by Julia Spencer-Fleming
Bookmarked to Die by Jo Dereske
Bubbles All the Way by Sarah Strohmeyer
Sophie Metropolis by Tori Carrington
To the Power of Three by Laura Lippman
Among the Imposters by Margaret Haddix