A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending August 12th, 2011 has been posted by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.
No new titles enter the top 15 this week with Portrait of a Spy by Daniel Silva retaining the top spot. The highest ranking new title comes in at number 18.
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New this week, but not quite making our list of the top 15, is Acceptable Loss, the 17th William Monk mystery by Anne Perry.
When the body of a small-time crook named Mickey Parfitt washes up on the tide, no one grieves; far from it. But William Monk, commander of the River Police, is puzzled by the expensive silk cravat used to strangle Parfitt. How did this elegant scarf — whose original owner was obviously a man of substance — end up imbedded in the neck of a wharf rat who richly deserved his sordid end?
Dockside informers lead Monk to what may be a partial answer — a floating palace of corruption on the Thames managed by Parfitt, where a captive band of half-starved boys are forced to perform vile acts for men willing to pay a high price for midnight pleasures. Although Monk and his fearless wife, Hester, would prefer to pin a medal on Parfitt’s killer, duty leads them in another direction — to an unresolved crime from the past, to blackmail and more murder, and to a deadly confrontation with some of the empire’s most respected men.
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