Seattle’s Best(s)

The Seattle Mystery Bookshop is one of the members of the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. The store reported its mystery bestsellers for August:

Hardcovers

• 1 – Kat Richardson, Seawitch, (Roc)
• 2 – Tana French, Broken Harbor, (Viking)
• 3 – tie  Laura Lippman, And When She was Good, (Morrow) and JA Jance, Judgment Call, (Morrow)
• 5 – tie Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins, (Harper) and James Lee Burke, Creole Belle, (Simon & Schuster)
• 7 – Megan Abbott, Dare Me, (Little Brown)
• 8 – Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, (Crown)
• 9 – Louise Penny, Beautiful Mystery, (Minotaur)
• 10 – Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse, (Bantam)

Trade Paperback

• 1 – Jussi, Adler-Olsen, The Keeper of Lost Causes, (Plume)
• 2 – Peter Spiegelman, Thick as Thieves, (Vintage)
• 3 – tie  Rebecca Cantrell, Trace of Smoke, (Forge) and Fred Vargas, The Chalk Circle Man, (Penguin)
• 5 – tie  Ernie Cline, Ready Player One, (Crown and Susan Hill, The Various Haunts of Men, (Overlook)
• 7 – tie  Ross Allison, Spooked in Seattle, (Clerisy) and Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects, (Three Rivers)
• Craig Johnson, The Cold Dish, (Penguin)
• GM Malliet, Wicked Autumn, (Minotaur)

Mass Market

• 1 – Kat Richardson, Greywalker, (Roc
• 2 – Louise Penny, Still Life (St. Martins)
• 3 – Cleo Coyle, Murder by Mocha, (Berkley)
• 4 – tie  Natalie R. Collins, Ties that Bind, (St. Martin’)s and Kate Carlisle, Peril in Paperback, (Obsidian)
• 6 – tie Jo Nesbø, Redbreast, (Harper and Rhys Bowen, Naughty in Nice, (Berkley)
• 8 – tie Kat Richardson, Downpour, (Roc); Patricia Briggs, Moon Called, (Ace); and Nancy Atherton, Aunt Dimity’s Death, (Penguin)