Here’s November’s list of best-selling mysteries from the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association:
Hardcovers
1 – P.D. James, The Private Patient, Knopf
2 – Michael Connelly, The Brass Verdict, Little Brown
3 – Donna Andrews, Six Geese A-Slaying, St. Martin’s
4 – Dennis Lehane, The Given Day, Morrow
5 – Jeffery Deaver, The Bodies Left Behind, Simon & Schuster
5 – Vince Flynn, Extreme Measures, Atria
7 – Katherine Neville, The Fire, Ballantine
7 – Clive Cussler, Arctic Drift, Putnam
9 – Reginald Hill, The Price of Butcher’s Meat, Harper
10 – Rita Mae Brown, Santa Clawed, Bantam
Softcover 1 – Elaine Viets, Murder with All the Trimmings, Obsidian
2 – Barbara Cleverly, Bright Hair About the Bone, Delta
3 – M.C. Beaton, Kissing Christmas Goodbye, St. Martin’s
4 – C.S. Challinor, Christmas is Murder, Midnight Ink
5 – Jennie Bentley, Fatal Fixer-Upper, Berkley
5 – Clare Langley-Hawthorne, The Serpent and the Scorpion, Penguin
5 – Jeanne Dams, Indigo Christmas, Perseverance Press
8 – John Hart, Down River, St. Martin’s
8 – Earl Derr Biggers, The House Without a Key, Academy Chicago Press
10 – Kate Kingsbury, Ringing In Murder, Berkley
10 – Archer Mayor, Chat, Grand Central
10 – Cynthia Baxter, Murder Packs a Suitcase, Bantam
10 – Kate Kingsbury, Shrouds of Holy, Berkley