Our Best Seller List for September 2010

Back to school excitement (particularly for parents), blockbuster events, offsite lecture sales……all these and displays of a unique nature capture the attention and the book buying eye of the Mystery lovers in our store this month. Those trade paperbacks in the only really readable typeface still lead the pack. I guess this point is completely lost on the suits!

Best Sellers in Hardcover

Best Sellers in Trade Paperback

Best Sellers in Mass Market Paperback

Hardcover Best Sellers

1. Body Work by Sara Paretsky

Chicago PI V.I. Warshawski

$26.95 signed copies available

2. Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny

Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec

$24.99 signed copies available

3. Bad Blood by John Sandford

Minnesota detective Virgil Flowers

$27.95 signed copies available

4. Maybe This Time by Jennifer Crusie

Funny and romantic novel with a touch of the paranormal

$24.99

5. Mirror Image by Dennis Palumbo

Pittsburgh-set debut with psychologist Daniel Rinaldi

$24.95 signed copies available

6. I'd Know You Anywhere by Laura Lippman

A suburban wife and mother confronts her past when she receives a letter from the man who kidnapped her as a teenager.

$25.99 signed copies available

7. An Impartial Witness by Charles Todd

WW I-era nurse Bess Crawford

$24.99

8. Shadows in the Street by Susan Hill

Inspector Simon Serraiuleur

$24.95

9. Earth: The Book by Jon Stewart

The staff of The Daily Show takes a nostalgic look back at Earth's history

$27.99

 

9. Loco Motive by Mary Daheim

Judith and Renie on a train

$23.99

10. Nemesis by Lindsey Davis

Ancient Roman mystery with Marcus Didius Falco

$24.99

Trade Paperback Best Sellers

1. The Collection by Gioia Deliberto

A young women discovers life working in Coco Chanel's atelier in 1919 Paris

$15

2. Run by Ann Patchett

the engrossing story of one family on one fateful night

$14.99

3. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford

Love story set against the background of WW II

$15

4. Still Life by Louise Penny

Inspector Armand Gamache, first in the series

$13.95

5. Fear in the Cotswolds by Rebecca Tope

Housesitter Thea Osborne

$16.95

6. The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny

Inspector Gamache, newest in paperback

$13.99

7. The Wrong Mother by Sophie Hannah

Woman finds man she had affair with isn't who she thought

$15

8. Arctic Chill by Arnaldur Indridason

Reykjavik's Inspector Erlendur Sveinsson

$15

9. Alexandria by Lindsey Davis

Ancient Roman mystery with Marcus Didius Falco

$14.99

10. The Bishop Must Die by Michael Jecks

Medieval mystery with Sir Baldwin Furnshill and Simon Puttock

$8.99

Paperback Best Sellers

1. Killer Plot by Ellery Adams

Clever display with lighthouse-themed puzzles boosted this first in a series by veteran Jennifer Stanley

$7.99

2. Hardball by Sara Paretsky

Chicago PI V.I. Warshawski

$9.99

 

3. Royal Flush by Rhys Bowen

Lady Georgie, penniless aristocrat

$7.99

 

4. The Flesh Tailor by Kate Ellis

Cop and amateur archaeolgoist Wesley Peterson

$9.99

 

5. The Silent Spirit by Margaret Coel

Father John O'Malley and Vicky Holden

$7.99

6. Miracle on 34th Street by Valentine Davies

Basis for the classic movie

$5.99

7. Swan for the Money by Donna Andrews

Meg Lanslow

$7.99

8. The Professional by Robert B. Parker

Boston PI Spenser

$9.99

 

9. The Quick and the Thread by Amanda Lee

Embroidery shop owner Marcy Singer

$6.99