The Indie Mystery & Thriller Bestseller List
Based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending August 7, 2011.
1. Smokin’ Seventeen
Janet Evanovich, Bantam, $28, 9780345527684
2. The Snowman
Jo Nesbø, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307595867
3. Sizzling Sixteen
Janet Evanovich, St. Martin’s, $8.99, 9780312383312
4. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley, Bantam, $15, 9780385343497
5. The Hypnotist
Lars Kepler, Sarah Crichton Books/FSG, $27, 9780374173951
6. The Man From Beijing
Henning Mankell, Vintage, $15, 9780307472847
7. I Still Dream About You
Fannie Flagg, Ballantine, $15, 9780812977165
8. The Devil’s Star
Jo Nesbø, Harper, $14.99, 9780061133985
9. Worth Dying For
Lee Child, Dell, $9.99, 9780440246299
10. Nemesis
Jo Nesbø, Harper, $14.99, 9780061655517
11. Burn
Nevada Barr, Minotaur, $9.99, 9780312381806
12. Iron House
John Hart, Thomas Dunne, $25.99, 9780312380342
13. Sister
Rosamund Lupton, Crown, $24, 9780307716514
14. The Double Comfort Safari Club
Alexander McCall Smith, Anchor, $14, 9780307277480
15. Sixkill
Robert B. Parker, Putnam, $26.95, 9780399157264
16. 10th Anniversary
James Patterson, Maxine Paetro, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316036269
17. Maisie Dobbs (Book One)
Jacqueline Winspear, Penguin, $15, 9780142004333
18. The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag
Alan Bradley, Bantam, $15, 9780385343459
19. The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party
Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $24.95, 9780307378392
20. Killing Floor
Lee Child, Penguin, $9.99, 9780515141429
21. A Question of Belief
Donna Leon, Penguin, $15, 9780143118954
22. Death in Summer
Benjamin Black, Holt, $25, 9780805090925
23. The Ice Princess
Camilla Lackberg, Free Press, $15, 9781451621747
24. The Mapping of Love and Death
Jacqueline Winspear, Harper Perennial, $14.99, 9780061727689
25. Buried Prey
John Sandford, Putnam, $27.95, 9780399157