The Indie Mystery & Thriller Bestseller List

Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending January 6, 2013.

 1. Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn, Crown, $25, 9780307588364

2. The Racketeer
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385535144

3. Sweet Tooth
Ian McEwan, Nan A. Talese, $26.95, 9780385536820

4. The Art Forger
B.A. Shapiro, Algonquin, $23.95, 9781616201326

5. The Black Box
Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316069434

6. Notorious Nineteen
Janet Evanovich, Bantam, $28, 9780345527745

7. V Is for Vengeance
Sue Grafton, Berkley, $7.99, 9780425250563

8. A Wanted Man
Lee Child, Delacorte, $28, 9780385344333

9. Phantom
Jo Nesbø, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307960474

10. The Snowman
Jo Nesbø, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307742995

11. The Keeper of Lost Causes
Jussi Adler-Olsen, Plume, $16, 9780452297906

12. Elegy for Eddie
Jacqueline Winspear, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062049582

13. The Best American Mystery Stories 2012
Robert Crais, Otto Penzler (Eds.), Mariner, $14.95, 9780547553986

14. The Marseille Caper
Peter Mayle, Knopf, $24, 9780307594198

15. Broken Harbor
Tana French, Viking, $27.95, 9780670023653

16. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley, Bantam, $15, 9780385343497

17. I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
Alan Bradley, Bantam, $15, 9780385344029

18. One Shot
Lee Child, Dell, $9.99, 9780345538192

19. The Beautiful Mystery
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $25.99, 9780312655464

20. The Drop
Michael Connelly, Grand Central, $9.99, 9780446556699

21. Still Life
Louise Penny, St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.99, 9780312541538

22. The Affair
Lee Child, Dell, $9.99, 9780440246305

23. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307742537

24. The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds
Alexander McCall Smith, Pantheon, $24.95, 9780307907332

25. Princess Elizabeth’s Spy
Susan Elia MacNeal, Bantam, $15, 9780553593624