A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending October 8th, 2010 has been posted on the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books website.
Though The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson continues to dominate the top of the list, we're seeing more new titles enter -- three this week.
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New last week but debuting just off the list, Bury Your Dead, the 6th Armand Gamache mystery by Louise Penny moves up smartly to number 7.
It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Gamache has come not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone hauntingly wrong. But violent death is inescapable, even in the apparent sanctuary of the Literary and Historical Society—where an obsessive historian’s quest for the remains of the founder of Quebec, Samuel de Champlain, ends in murder. Could a secret buried with Champlain for nearly 400 years be so dreadful that someone would kill to protect it?
Although he is supposed to be on leave, Gamache cannot walk away from a crime that threatens to ignite long-smoldering tensions between the English and the French. Meanwhile, he is receiving disquieting letters from the village of Three Pines, where beloved Bistro owner Olivier was recently convicted of murder. “It doesn't make sense,” Olivier’s partner writes every day. “He didn't do it, you know.” As past and present collide, Gamache must relive the terrible event of his own past before he can bury his dead.
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The 16th mystery featuring Harry Bosch and the 3rd with Mickey Haller, The Reversal by Michael Connelly enters the list in 10th position.
Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch.
Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, now out on bail, a defense attorney who excels at manipulating the media, and a runaway eyewitness reluctant to testify after so many years.
With the odds and the evidence against them, Bosch and Haller must nail a sadistic killer once and for all. If Bosch is sure of anything, it is that Jason Jessup plans to kill again.
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New on the list in the 11st spot is the 38th Spenser mystery, Painted Ladies by the late Robert B. Parker.
Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston private investigator Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange -- money for a stolen painting.
The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen. Convinced that Ashton Prince played a bigger role than just ransom delivery boy, Spenser enters into a daring game of cat-and-mouse with the thieves. But this is a game he might not come out of alive ...
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The top four mystery bestsellers this week are shown below:
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