A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending August 07, 2009 has been posted on the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books website.
Last week's featured new bestseller, The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson, assumes the top spot this week. Little other change in the top 10, though.
New this week at number 15 is Inherent Vice by reclusive author Thomas Pynchon, whose previous novels have been grand in both scope and length (but not mysteries). It’s been awhile since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. Easy for her to say. It’s the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that “love” is another of those words going around at the moment, like “trip” or “groovy,” except that this one usually leads to trouble. Despite which he soon finds himself drawn into a bizarre tangle of motives and passions whose cast of characters includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, a tenor sax player working undercover, an ex-con with a swastika tattoo and a fondness for Ethel Merman, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists. (MBN note: For more information, see our post on Inherent Vice, which includes a very entertaining trailer for the book, narrated by the author.)
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