Mystery Bestsellers for June 11, 2010

A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending June 11th, 2010 has been posted on the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books website.

Little change within the top 10 with the third and final thriller in the Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson, retaining the top position. One new title moves into the top 15, after debuting just off the list last week.

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Moving into the 10th spot is the 19th thriller in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series, Bullet by Laurell K. Hamilton.

Anita is back in St. Louis and trying to live a normal life -- as normal as possible for someone who is a legal vampire executioner and a U.S. Marshal. There are lovers, friends and their children, school programs to attend. In the midst of all the ordinary happiness a vampire from Anita's past reaches out. She was supposed to be dead, killed in an explosion, but the Mother of All Darkness is the first vampire, their dark creator. It's hard to kill a god. This dark goddess has reached out to her here -- in St. Louis, home of everyone Anita loves most. The Mother of All Darkness has decided she has to act now or never, to control Anita, and all the vampires in America.

The Mother of All Darkness believes that the triumvirate created by master vampire Jean-Claude with Anita and the werewolf Richard Zeeman has enough power for her to regain a body and to immigrate to the New World. But the body she wants to possess is already taken. Anita is about to learn a whole new meaning to sharing her body, one that has nothing to do with the bedroom. And if the Mother of All Darkness can't succeed in taking over Anita's body for herself, she means to see that no one else has the use of it, ever again. Even Belle Morte, not always a friend to Anita, has sent word: "Run if you can ..."

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The top four mystery bestsellers this week are shown below:

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