Our Best Seller List for May 2008
Ah spring…..when all the mystery readers are out walking, gardening and coming to author events. Our kickin’ Indiana Jones event with James Rollins filled the classic single screen Oaks movie theater and other exciting store events---with and without a Mediterranean buffet---scored.
Mother’s Day, autographed firsts, Victoria Thompson’s third terrific virtual signing and book groups also did a nice job with sales. On to summer!
Best Sellers in Hardcover
Best Sellers in Trade Paperback
Best Sellers in Mass Market Paperback
Hardcover Best Sellers
Thomas Lynley, life after leaving Scotland Yard. Signed copies a boost to sales, sadlyl, they're all gone.
$27.95
Best seller Rollins turns the screenplay of the movie into a compelling novel.
$26, signed copies available
Sookie Stackhouse
faces a crisis in the world of the undead
$24.95, signed copies available
Gaslight era midwife Sarah Brandt. Authors email announcement of signed books boosted sales for this popular series.
$23.95, signed copies available
Hellen Hawthorne takes a new dead end job--at a country club.
$21.95, signed copies available
Venice's own Guido Brunetti
$24
Thomas and Charlotte Pitt
$26
Based on the CMU's professor's final lecture, composed after he found he had pancreatic cancer
$21.95
Park ranger Anna Pigeon
$24.95, signed copies available
Botswana PI Precious Ramotswe
$22.95
Trade Paperback Best Sellers
The sisters we me in Pomegranate Soup continue their adventures in Ireland
$14
Three Iranian sisters open a restaurant in a small village in Ireland
$13.95
Scotland Yard Inspector Joe Sandilands
$13
Rebus ready for retirement--but not before one more case.
$22
Compelling tale of Frank Lloyd Wright and his affair with Mameh Chaney
$14
Edgar-winning debut introduces Dublin cop Cassie Maddox
$14
Golden Age sleuth Phryne Fisher
$14.95
Alaska, not Israel, becomes the Jewish homeland in this homage to the detective novel
$15.95
Author's tale of growing up on her grandparent's farm during the Great Depression
$12
Debut set in Berlin just before WW II
$14
Paperback Best Sellers
Librarian Helma Zukas
$6.99
Venetian policeman Guido Brunetti
$7.99
Mystery bookstore owner Tricia Miles
$6.99
Helen Hawthorne finds work as a hotel maid
$6.99
Lawyer follows trail of painting stolen by the Nazi's
$6.99
Standalone revolves around body found in bog that may be Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian
$7.99
Debut introduces marine insurance investigator Jane Bunker
$6.99
Young adult mystery set in Pittsburgh's Strip District in the '30s
$5.99
First in the Sookie Stackhouse series
$7.99
New York PI Desiree Shapiro
$6.99
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