Mystery Bestsellers for the Week Ending July 27, 2012

A list of the top 15 mystery hardcover bestsellers for the week ending July 27th, 2012 has been posted by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.

No change at the top this week with the stand-alone thriller Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn remaining a solid number 1 … this week just besting last week's featured title, The Fallen Angel by Daniel Silva.

Two new titles enter the list this week.

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At number 8 is the 11th Scot Harvath thriller, Black List by Brad Thor.

Somewhere deep inside the United States government is a closely guarded list. Members of Congress never get to see it — only the President and a secret team of advisers. Once your name is on the list, it doesn't come off … until you're dead.

Someone has just added counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath's name.

Somehow Harvath must evade the teams dispatched to kill him long enough to untangle who has targeted him and why they want him out of the way.

Somewhere, someone, somehow can put all the pieces together. The only question is, will Harvath get to that person before the United States suffers the most withering terrorist attack ever conceived?

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Two spots lower at number 10 is the fourth "Dublin Murder Squad" mystery, Broken Harbor by Tana French.

Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy plays by the book and plays hard. That's what's made him the Murder squad's top detective — and that's what puts the biggest case of the year into his hands.

On one of the half-built, half-abandoned "luxury" developments that litter Ireland, Patrick Spain and his two young children are dead. His wife, Jenny, is in intensive care.

At first, Scorcher and his rookie partner, Richie, think it's going to be an easy solve. But too many small things can't be explained. The half dozen baby monitors, their cameras pointing at holes smashed in the Spains' walls. The files erased from the Spains' computer. The story Jenny told her sister about a shadowy intruder who was slipping past all the locks.

And Broken Harbor holds memories for Scorcher. Seeing the case on the news sends his sister Dina off the rails again, and she's resurrecting something that Scorcher thought he had tightly under control: what happened to their family one summer at Broken Harbor, back when they were children.

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