Our Best Seller List for November 2007

With customer early shipping concerns and desire to spread out the holiday spending, we find this month is a big one for holiday shoppers......and the list certainly proves it.

All of us at Mystery Lovers wish you peace, good health and prosperity as we head into 2008.

Best Sellers in Hardcover

Best Sellers in Trade Paperback

Best Sellers in Mass Market Paperback

Hardcover Best Sellers

1. Protect and Defend by Vince Flynn

CIA agent Mitch Rapp takes on the Iranians

$26.95

2. A Christmas Beginning by Anne Perry

A Victorian Christmas story featuring Inspector Runcorn

$17.95

3. Kissing Christmas Goodbye by M.C. Beaton

Agatha Raisin fights the holidays to a standstill

$23.95

4. How Big Is It? by Ben Hillman

Marvelous picture book demonstrates the size of big things by comparison to familiar objects

$14.99

5. Good Granny/Bad Granny by Mary McHugh

Good Granny takes the kids to Bambi, Bad Granny sneaks them into Invasion of the Body Snatchers. You get the idea.

$9.95

6. Mrs. Jeffries and the Feast of St. Stephen by Emily Brightwell

Everyone's favorite Victorian housekeeper in a Christmas mystery

$22.95

7. Puff the Magic Dragon with CD by Peter Yarrow

The classic song with spectacular illustrations, includes CD with additional songs

$16.95

8. Blue Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews

Delightful Christmas novel, fully revised with new recipes

$14.95

9. Candy Cane Murder by Joanne Fluke , Leslie Meier and Laura Levine

Christmas-set novellas by the three authors, each featuring their series characters

$16

10. World Without End by Ken Follett

sequel to Pillars of the Earth, tale of medieval cathedral

$35

Trade Paperback Best Sellers

1. Shrouds of Holly by Kate Kingsbury

A Pennyfoot Hotel Christmas mystery

$14

2. Ghost at the Table by Suzanne Berne

Taut, psychological drama of a family's unraveling.

$13.95

3. Love Over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith

Third in the 44 Scotland Street series of boarding house tales

$13.95

4. Nature Girl by Carl Hiaasen

Comic mystery from the master

$13.99

5. Extraordinary People by Peter May

Enzo MacLeod, retired forensic scientist living in France

$14.95

6. Holmes on the Range by Steve Hockensmith

Tale of cowboy sleuths who style themselves after Sherlock Holmes

$12.95

7. Quality of Mercy by David Roberts

Aristocratic sleuth Lord Edward Corinth

$15

8. The Bass Wore Scales by Mark Schweizer

Further adventures of Hayden Konig; police chief, choirmaster and would-be mystery writer

$12.95

9. A Clubbable Woman by Reginald Hill

first of the Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries, available once again in the US

$14.95

10. Written in Blood by Caroline Graham

Number 4 in the continued republication of Graham's marvelous Inspector Barnaby series

$14.95

Paperback Best Sellers

1. Accessory to Murder by Elaine Viets

Mystery shopper Josie Marcus

$6.99

2. The Body in the Ivy by Katherine Hall Page

caterer Faith Sibley Fairchild

$7.99

3. A Carol for a Corpse by Claudia Bishop

Christmas at the Quilliam Sisters B&B

$6.99

4. Gunpowder Plot by Carola Dunn

Twenties sleuth Daisy Dalrymple

$6.99

5. Slay Bells by Kate Kingsbury

A Pennyfoot Hotel Christmas mystery

$6.99

6. Beware False Profits by Emilie Richards

Small town minister's wife Aggie Sloan-Wilcox

$6.99

7. A Murderous Glaze by Melissa Glazer

Debut for pottery shop owner Carolyn Emerson

$6.99

8. The Crafty Teddy by John Lamb

Teddy bear collector Bradley Lyons

$6.99

9. Fatal Feng Shui by Leslie Caine

interior designer Erin Gilbert

$6.99

10. Murder at the Opera by Margaret Truman

The murder of a young soprano starts the action in this Washington thriller

$7.99