Friday, March 19, 2010

Mystery Bestsellers for March 19, 2010

Mystery Bestsellers

A list of the top 15 for the week ending March 19, 2010 has been posted on the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books website.

Although there's little change at the top of the list this week, Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol is still number one, we're starting to see more new titles enter the list.

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Deep Shadow by Randy Wayne White
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Debuting just off the list last week and moving up to 7th position this week is Deep Shadow, the 17th Doc Ford mystery by Randy Wayne White.

Many dangers lurk in the deep -- the worst of them are human.

Thirty minutes into what should have been an easy, beginner-level dive in a remote Florida lake, the rim of a cave collapses, trapping two of Doc Ford's friends. Ford himself manages to escape and quickly surfaces to find help-but that's when his troubles only begin.

Two men are waiting for him on the shore, and they are not the kind of men you want to meet at any time. Murderers and ex-cons, they're intent on diving to the bottom of the very deep lake and uncovering the remains of a legendary plane wreck there, supposedly loaded with Cuban treasury gold. Ford's ex­pertise is just what they need. And if he doesn't want to help? He can die. His friends? They can die, too. In fact, they can die right now ...

As the hours tick away, two mortal struggles unfold simulta­neously, one above and one below. Neither outcome is certain, no man is safe ... and in the deep shadow, only death awaits.

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Think Twice by Lisa Scottoline
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New at number 10 is Think Twice, the 13th thriller set at the Philadelphia law firm of Rosato and Associates by Lisa Scottoline.

Bennie Rosato looks exactly like her identical twin, Alice Connolly, but the darkness in Alice’s soul makes them two very different women. Or at least that’s what Bennie believes, until she finds herself buried alive at the hands of her twin.

Meanwhile, Alice takes over Bennie’s life, impersonating her at work and even seducing her boyfriend in order to escape the deadly mess she has made of her own life. But Alice underestimates Bennie and the evil she has unleashed in her twin’s psyche, as well as Bennie’s determination to stay alive long enough to exact revenge.

Bennie must face the twisted truth that she is more like her sister Alice than she could have ever imagined, and by the novel’s shocking conclusion, Bennie finds herself engaged in a war she cannot win -- with herself.

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The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley
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And just making the list at nubmer 15 is the second Flavia de Luce mystery, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley.

Flavia thinks that her days of crime-solving in the bucolic English hamlet of Bishop’s Lacy are over -- and then Rupert Porson has an unfortunate rendezvous with electricity. The beloved puppeteer has had his own strings sizzled, but who’d do such a thing and why? For Flavia, the questions are intriguing enough to make her put aside her chemistry experiments and schemes of vengeance against her insufferable big sisters. Astride Gladys, her trusty bicycle, Flavia sets out from the de Luces’ crumbling family mansion in search of Bishop’s Lacey’s deadliest secrets.

Does the madwoman who lives in Gibbet Wood know more than she’s letting on? What of the vicar’s odd ministrations to the catatonic woman in the dovecote? Then there’s a German pilot obsessed with the Brontë sisters, a reproachful spinster aunt, and even a box of poisoned chocolates. Most troubling of all is Porson’s assistant, the charming but erratic Nialla. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can’t solve -- without Flavia’s help. But in getting so close to who’s secretly pulling the strings of this dance of death, has our precocious heroine finally gotten in way over her head?

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The top four mystery bestsellers this week are shown below:

The Lost Symbol by Dan BrownSplit Image by Robert B. ParkerWorst Case by James PattersonThe Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell

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