Mystery Bestsellers for April 11, 2008

A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending April 11, 2008 has been posted on the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books website.

No changes among the top 4 bestselling mystery books this week, with Jonathan Kellerman's latest Alex Delaware thriller, Compulsion, retaining the top position.

Just missing the cutoff last week and debuting in 7th position this week is Winter Study, the 14th mystery in the Anna Pigeon series by Nevada Barr, this time with the National Park Ranger visiting Isle Royale in Lake Superior. Anna's there to learn about managing and understanding wolves, as her home base of Rocky Mountain National Park might soon have their own pack of the magnificent, much-maligned animals. She’'s housed in the island’s bunkhouse with the famed wolf study team, along with two scientists from Homeland Security, who are assessing the study with an eye to opening the park each winter, effectively bringing an end to the fifty-year study, so that it can be manned to secure the scrap of border with Canada. Soon after Anna’s arrival, the wolf packs under observation begin to act in peculiar ways. Giant wolf prints are found, and Anna spies the form of a great wolf from a surveillance plane. The discovery of wolf scat containing alien DNA leads the team to believe that perhaps a wolf/dog hybrid has been introduced to the island. When a female member of the team is savaged, Anna is convinced she is being stalked, and what was once a beautiful, idyllic refuge becomes a place of unnatural occurrences and danger beyond the ordinary. Alone on an island without electricity or running water, with temperatures hovering around zero both day and night, Anna fights not only for the wolves, but for also her own survival.

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The top four mystery bestsellers this week are shown below:

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