Mystery Bestsellers for the Week Ending April 05, 2013

A list of the top 15 Mystery Hardcover Bestsellers for the week ending April 5th, 2013 has been posted by the Hidden Staircase Mystery Books.

No change among the top two titles on our list, though last week's featured new bestselling title, Leaving Everything Most Loved, the 10th Maisie Dobbs mystery by Jacqueline Winspear, makes a strong jump into third place.

Two new titles debut this week (below; position in backets).

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[9]: Life After Life
Kate Atkinson

On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on towards its second cataclysmic world war.

Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can — will she?

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[14]: Prescription For Murder
Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain
— Murder, She Wrote (39th)

When her latest book tour brings bestselling author Jessica Fletcher to Tampa, Florida, she's thrilled to learn that her travel plans overlap with those of her good friend, Cabot Cove's own Dr. Seth Hazlitt.

Seth is in town visiting Alvaro Vasquez, a renowned physician he befriended while participating in a research program in Havana. Vasquez, who has defected from Cuba to Tampa, is developing a potentially groundbreaking cure for Alzheimer's disease. If he's successful, his American backers stand to make millions. But there is a growing fear that the drug may fall into the hands of a powerful pharmaceutical company.

Jessica attends a party at Vasquez's lavish home, but the celebration ends abruptly when guests witness Vasquez seemingly struck by lightning. Jessica and Seth do some digging into the physician's checkered past and learn that his death was no accident. As they work together to find a cure for the common killer, they become enmeshed in international intrigue involving the local police, the FBI, the CIA — and begin to wonder if they'll ever see Cabot Cove again.

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