Mystery Bestsellers for the Week Ending November 18, 2011

A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending November 18th, 2011 has been posted by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.

Just a bit of minor shuffling among the top bestselling mysteries this week, with The Litigators by John Grisham retaining the number one spot. Two new titles debut this week.

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Coming in at number 8 is the 22nd Kinsey Millhone mystery, V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton.

A woman with a murky past who kills herself — or was it murder? A spoiled kid awash in gambling debt who thinks he can beat the system. A lovely woman whose life is about to splinter into a thousand fragments. A professional shoplifting ring working for the Mob, racking up millions from stolen goods. A wandering husband, rich and ruthless. A dirty cop so entrenched on the force he is immune to exposure. A sinister gangster, conscienceless and brutal. A lonely widower mourning the death of his lover, desperate for answers, which may be worse than the pain of his loss. A private detective, Kinsey Millhone, whose thirty-eighth-birthday gift is a punch in the face that leaves her with two black eyes and a busted nose.

And an elegant and powerful businessman whose dealings are definitely outside the law: the magus at the center of the web.

V: Victim. Violence. Vengeance.

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Just one place lower at number 9 is the latest Alex Cross mystery, Kill Alex Cross by James Patterson.

The President's son and daughter are abducted, and Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene. But someone very high-up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark.

A deadly contagion in the water supply cripples half of the capital, and Alex discovers that someone may be about to unleash the most devastating attack the United States has ever experienced.

As his window for solving both crimes narrows, Alex makes a desperate decision that goes against everything he believes — one that may alter the fate of the entire country.

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