A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending August 14, 2009 has been posted on the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books website.
Last week's top bestseller, The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson, retains the top spot again this week, with last week's featured title, Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon, moving up 9 positions to number 6.
Actually debuting last week but moving into the top 15 this week is The Siege by Stephen White. As a lovely April weekend approaches on the Yale campus it appears that a number of students—including the sons of both the Secretary of the Army and newest Supreme Court Justice—may have suddenly gone missing. Kidnapping? Prank? Terrorism? The authorities aren't sure. No demands are made. But the high profile disappearances draw the attention of the CIA and the FBI's vaunted Hostage Rescue Team. Attention quickly focuses on the fortress-like tomb of one of Yale's secret societies. Suspended Boulder police detective Sam Purdy is minding his own business in Miami, where he is attending the engagement party of his girlfriend's daughter. The wealthy mother-of-the-groom to-be, Ann Summers Calderon, pulls Sam aside to confide that she's received an ominous warning. When Ann's daughter, a Yale junior, fails to arrive in Florida for her brother's festivities, Sam soon finds himself on a private jet to New Haven, where he is quickly snared by an unlikely pair of Feds. FBI agent Christopher Poe and CIA analyst Deirdre Drake each have their own reasons to fear, and seek, whoever is behind the mystery. Sam, Poe, and Dee join together, desperately trying to solve the riddle of what is going on inside the windowless Ionic stone tomb on the edge of campus. The clock is pounding in their ears. The unknown enemy is playing by no known rules ... Is making no demands ... Is refusing to communicate with the hostage negotiator ... Is somehow anticipating every FBI move ... Is completely unconcerned about getting away ... And ... one by one, is sending students out the building's front door to die. Mysterious Reviews called The Siege "meticulously plotted, unpredictable and unforgettable", adding that it is a "must read novel, its story will haunt the reader long after the last page is turned." [MBN note: Read the full review of The Siege by Stephen White.]
The top four mystery bestsellers this week are shown below:
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