Mystery Bestsellers for the Week Ending October 11, 2014

A list of the top 15 Mystery Hardcover Bestsellers for the week ending October 11th, 2014 has been posted by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.

The 19th Jack Reacher thriller by Lee Child, Personal, continues to top our list this week, though James Patterson's latest Michael Bennett thriller Burn made a strong move into second position.

Two new titles enter the list this week; debut position in [brackets].

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[6]: Deadline
John Sandford
— A Virgil Flowers Mystery (8th in series)

In Southeast Minnesota, down on the Mississippi, a school board meeting is coming to an end. The board chairman announces that the rest of the meeting will be closed, due to personnel issues. "Issues" is correct. The proposal up for a vote before them is whether to authorize the killing of a local reporter. The vote is four to one in favor.

Meanwhile, not far away, Virgil Flowers is helping out a friend by looking into a dognapping, which seems to be turning into something much bigger and uglier — a team of dognappers supplying medical labs — when he gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A murdered body has been found — and the victim is a local reporter …

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[12]: Paris Match
Stuart Woods
— A Stone Barrington Mystery (31st in series)

Stone Barrington has returned to Paris to attend to some business concerns, and finds himself embroiled in high-stakes trouble on both sides of the pond. An old enemy is still in hot pursuit, and this time he might have a powerful local resource on his side: a gentleman with his own ax to grind against Stone.

And back in the United States, the swirling rumor mill threatens to derail a project of vital importance not just to Stone but to the nation. Though Stone is no stranger to peril, never before has he faced threats from so many directions at once …

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