Our Best Seller List for April 2008

A busy month with “A Little Night of Romance (Suspense and Mystery too)” as well as our 13th Festival of Mystery means bigger sales than usual from 71 visiting authors. Ticket holders for these events sought out 595 first in a series books to find new authors to read. Past years’ experience tells us this brings more sales for later books in a series through the year. Add in a few book club selections, author events and we have the big month’s best selling books, but all of our authors are winners of new readers.

Best Sellers in Hardcover

Best Sellers in Trade Paperback

Best Sellers in Mass Market Paperback

Hardcover Best Sellers

1. Buckingham Palace Gardens by Anne Perry

Thomas and Charlotte Pitt solve murder at the royal palace

$26

2. Clubbed to Death by Elaine Viets

Helen Hawthorne takes an off-the-books job at a country club

$21.95 signed copies available

3. Death Will Get You Sober by Elizabeth Zelvin

Engaging debut has recovering alcoholic looking into a murder

$23.95 signed copies available

4. Another Thing to Fall by Laura Lippman

Tess Monaghan finds murder on the set of a TV production

$24.95 signed copies available

5. Unraveling of Violeta Bell by C.R. Corwin

Morgue Mama Dolly Sprowls

$24.95 signed copies available

6. Not a Box by Antoinette Portis

A small rabbit shows that box can be anything you can imagine

$12.99

7. Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris

Debut introduces gardening sleuth Paula Holliday

$23.95 signed copies available

8. Murder Melts in Your Mouth by Nancy Martin

Latest Blackbird sisters mystery returns to the best seller list

$22.95 signed copies available

9. Watches of the Night by Sally S. Wright

Archivist Ben Reese tackles a case that goes back to his WW II experiences

$28.95 signed copies available

10. Afterimage by Kathleen George

George's third Pittsburgh-set mystery returns to the list

$24.95 signed copies available

Trade Paperback Best Sellers

1. Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

Compelling novel of ardent feminist Mamah Cheney, Frank Lloyd Wright's lover

$14

2. The War Against Miss Winter by Kathryn Miller Haines

Pittsburgh writer's engaging wartime-set debut returns to our list

$13.95

3. Tail of the Scorpion by William Davis

A second mystery for Western Pennsylvania sheriff Clive Aliston

$16.95

4. Brigadoom and Little Shop of Murders by Susan Goodwill

Debut and sequel featuring amateur theater actress Kate London

Bridagoom, $12.95

Little Shop of Murders, $13.95

5. 1001 Books for Every Mood by Hallie Ephron

An indispensable guide for book clubs or anyone looking to discover new authors

$14.95

5. Bobbie Faye's Very Bad Day by Toni McGee Causey

Funny and fast-paced debut introduces title character

$12.95

6. A Fly Has a Hundred Eyes by Aileen Baron

Archaeological thriller set in Jerusalem in 1938

$16.95

7. Morgue Momma by C.R. Corwin

Debut for newspaper librarian Dolly Sprowls

$14.95

8. An Eye for Murder by Libby Fischer Hellmann

Debut for Chicago film maker Ellie Forman

$14.95

9. Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran

Charming novel of 3 Iranian sisters who open a restaurant in a small Irish village

$13.95

10. The River Runs Orange by R.J. Harlick

Quebec sleuth Meg Harris

$15.95

10. Relative Danger by Charles Benoit

Rollicking novel send brewery worker around the world to solve the mystery of his uncle's death

$14.95

Paperback Best Sellers

1. Murder is Binding by Lorna Barrett

What's not to like in a series set in a msytery bookstore?

$6.99

 

2. Lifelines by C.J. Lyons

ER doc seeks truth behind her patient's death in a Pittsburgh hospital

$7.99

 

3. Corpse Pose by Diana Killian

Debut for yoga instructor A.J.

$6.99

 

4. Face Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan

Reporter Charlotte McNally finds new evidence in an old murder case

$5.50

5. The Chrysalis by Heather Terrell

Art history thrilelr follows painting from it's creation through WW II to the present

$6.99

 

6. Crazy Little Thing Called Death by Nancy Martin

Nora Blackbird gets ready for marriage

$6.99

 

7. Dolled Up for Murder and Dolly Departed by Deb Baker

Doll collector Gretchen Birch

Dolled Up for Murder, $6.99

Dolly Departed, $6.99

8. Deadly Appraisal and Consigned to Death by Jane K. Cleland

Antiques dealer Jodie Prescott

Consigned to Death, $6.99

Deadly Appraisal, $6.99

9. Through a Glass Deadly by Sarah Atwell

Debut introduces glass blower Emmeline Dowell

$6.99

 

10. The Cluttered Corpse by Mary Jane Maffini

Second appearance for professional organizer Charlotte Adams

$6.99