Friday, April 08, 2011

Mystery Bestsellers for April 08, 2011

Mystery Bestsellers

A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending April 8th, 2011 has been posted on the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books website.

Last week's featured title, The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party, the 12th case for the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith, moves into the top spot this week. Three new titles either move up or debut in the top 15.

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The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell
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Moving from 19th position to 8th is the 10th Kurt Wallander mystery, The Troubled Man by Henning Mankell.

On a winter day in 2008, Håkan von Enke, a retired high-ranking naval officer, vanishes during his daily walk in a forest near Stockholm. The investigation into his disappearance falls under the jurisdiction of the Stockholm police. It has nothing to do with Wallander—officially. But von Enke is his daughter’s future father-in-law. And so, with his inimitable disregard for normal procedure, Wallander is soon interfering in matters that are not his responsibility, making promises he won’t keep, telling lies when it suits him—and getting results. But the results hint at elaborate Cold War espionage activities that seem inextricably confounding, even to Wallander, who, in any case, is troubled in more personal ways as well. Negligent of his health, he’s become convinced that, having turned sixty, he is on the threshold of senility. Desperate to live up to the hope that a new granddaughter represents, he is continually haunted by his past. And looking toward the future with profound uncertainty, he will have no choice but to come face-to-face with his most intractable adversary: himself.

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Mystery by Jonathan Kellerman
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Also moving into the top 15, landing in the 11th spot, is Mystery, the 24th mystery featuring Alex Delaware by Jonathan Kellerman.

The closing of their favorite romantic rendezvous, the Fauborg Hotel in Beverly Hills, is a sad occasion for longtime patrons Alex Delaware and Robin Castagna. And gathering one last time with their fellow faithful habitués for cocktails in the gracious old venue makes for a bittersweet evening. But even more poignant is a striking young woman—alone and enigmatic among the revelers—waiting in vain in elegant attire and dark glasses that do nothing to conceal her melancholy. Alex can’t help wondering what her story is, and whether she’s connected to the silent, black-suited bodyguard lingering outside the hotel.

Two days later, Alex has even more to contemplate when police detective Milo Sturgis comes seeking his psychologist comrade’s insights about a grisly homicide. To Alex’s shock, the brutalized victim is the same beautiful woman whose lonely hours sipping champagne at the Fauborg may have been her last.

But with a mutilated body and no DNA match, she remains as mysterious in death as she seemed in life. And even when a tipster’s sordid revelation finally cracks the case open, the dark secrets that spill out could make Alex and Milo’s best efforts to close this horrific crime not just impossible but fatal.

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The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly
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Debuting in 14th position is the fourth Mickey Haller legal thriller, The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly.

Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home.

Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too—and he's certain he's on the right trail.

Despite the danger and uncertainty, Haller mounts the best defense of his career in a trial where the last surprise comes after the verdict is in.

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The top four mystery bestsellers this week are shown below:

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall SmithThe Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg LarssonLive Wire by Harlan CobenA Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

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