A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending October 03, 2008 has been posted on the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books website.
Retaining the top spot this week is The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, the first book in The Millennium Trilogy by the late Steig Larsson. [MBN note: Read our review of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.] But other than that, there was a significant change in order of the top 10.
New on this list this week (and just missing the list last week) is The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday, the 5th mystery in the Sunday Philosphy Club series with amateur sleuth Isabel Dalhousie by Alexander McCall Smith. Isabel’s incandescent curiosity is piqued when she is asked to help a professor of medicine who has been disgraced by allegations of scientific fraud concerning a newly marketed drug. Would a doctor with a stellar reputation make such a simple but grave mistake? If not, what explains the tragic accident that resulted in the death of a patient? An investigation is in order, especially since a man’s reputation is in jeopardy, and a great deal of money is at stake for the pharmaceutical company involved. She’s also occupied by the envy she feels in the face of Jamie’s new friendship with the composer-in-residence at the University of Edinburgh. Whatever the case, whatever the solution, Isabel’s combination of spirit, smarts, curiosity, empathy and unabashed nosiness guarantees a delightful adventure. Publishers Weekly calls The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday "winning", adding "The strengths of the book, as with Smith's better known No. 1 Ladies' Detective series, lie in its protagonist's determination to treat others without judgment-and in the author's revealing glimpses into the human soul."
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