A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending April 20th, 2012 has been posted by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.
The latest No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency mystery, The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection by Alexander McCall Smith retains its number one spot this week atop the bestsellers list.
Two new titles debut this week.
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New at number 9 is the stand-alone thriller The Innocent by David Baldacci.
It begins with a hit gone wrong. Will Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people.
Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a fourteen-year-old runaway from a foster home. But she isn't an ordinary runaway — her parents were murdered, and her own life is in danger. Against all of his professional habits, Robie rescues her and finds he can't walk away. He needs to help her.
Even worse, the more Robie learns about the girl, the more he's convinced she is at the center of a vast cover-up, one that may explain her parents' deaths and stretch to unimaginable levels of power.
Now, Robie may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girl's life … and perhaps his own.
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The 23rd Stone Barrington thriller, Unnatural Acts by Stuart Woods, enters the list two places lower at number 11.
When a hedge fund billionaire hires Stone Barrington to talk some sense into his wayward son, it seems like an easy enough job; no one knows the hidden sins and temptations of the ultra-wealthy better than Stone. But as Stone and his erstwhile protégé, Herbie Fisher, probe deeper into the case — and an old one comes back to haunt him — he realizes that even he may have underestimated just how far some people will go to cover up their crimes … and plan new ones.
From Manhattan's mahogany-paneled law offices to its modern penthouse lofts and dimly lit nightclubs, the trail of entrapment and murder leads to a shocking act that no one could ever have anticipated.
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