A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending March 11th, 2011 has been posted on the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books website.
For the first time in nearly a year, we have a new title atop the bestseller list: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness. Its move to the top was by the slimmest of margins, but it still wins bragging rights for the week. Two other titles move from just off the list into the top 15.
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Moving from 16th position to the 8th spot is The Night Season, the fourth thriller to feature Portland homicide detective Archie Sheridan by Chelsea Cain.
With the Beauty Killer Gretchen Lowell locked away behind bars once again, Archie Sheridan — a Portland police detective and nearly one of her victims — can finally rest a little easier. Meanwhile, the rest of the city of Portland is in crisis. Heavy rains have flooded the Willamette River, and several people have drowned in the quickly rising waters. Or at least that’s what they thought until the medical examiner discovers that the latest victim didn’t drown: She was poisoned before she went into the water. Soon after, three of those drownings are also proven to be murders. Portland has a new serial killer on its hands, and Archie and his task force have a new case.
Reporter Susan Ward is chasing this story of a new serial killer with gusto, but she’s also got another lead to follow for an entirely separate mystery: The flooding has unearthed a skeleton, a man who might have died more than sixty years ago, the last time Portland flooded this badly, when the water washed away an entire neighborhood and killed at least fifteen people.
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Aimée Leduc is back in this week's 13th top bestseller, Murder in Passy, the 11th mystery in this series by Cara Black.
The village-like neighborhood of Passy, home to many of Paris’s wealthiest residents, is the last place one would expect a murder. But when Aimée Leduc’s godfather, Morbier, a police commissaire, asks her to check on his girlfriend at her home there, that’s exactly what Aimée finds.
Xavierre, a haut bourgeois matron of Basque origin, is strangled in her garden while Aimée waits inside. Circumstantial evidence makes Morbier the prime suspect, and to vindicate him, Aimée must identify the real killer. Her investigation leads her to police corruption; the radical Basque terrorist group, ETA; and a kidnapped Spanish princess.
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The top four mystery bestsellers this week are shown below:
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