Mystery Bestsellers for April

The Seattle Mystery Bookshop is a member of the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association (IMBA), an organization that at one time listed the top-selling novels each month for all member stores. Although the IMBA no longer keeps such lists online, the Seattle store carries on the tradition and posted their most popular books for the past month:

April Hardcover Bestsellers

1. Amanda Quick – Otherwise Engaged 

2. Tie:

Kelley Armstrong – Sea Of Shadows
Donna Leon – By Its Cover 

4. Mary Daheim – The Alpine Yeoman

5. Tie:

CJ Box – Stone Cold
Harlan Coben – Missing You

7. Tie:

Val McDermid – Northanger Abbey 
Benjamin Black – The Black-Eyed Blonde 

9. Tie:

Elizabeth Lowell – Night Diver
Peter Robinson – Children Of The Revolution
Alan Bradley – The Dead In Their Vaulted Arches
Jussi Adler-Olsen – Purity Of Vengeance 
Loren D. Estleman – Don't look For Me
Michael Robertson – Moriarty Returns A Letter
John Straley – Cold Storage Alaska
Pierre Lemaitre – Alex  

April Trade Paperback Bestsellers

1. Maurizio De Giovanni – I Will Have Vengeance

2. Peter Spiegelman – Thick As Thieves 

3. Tie:

Max Barry – Lexicon
Gillian Flynn – Gone Girl 
Burt Weissbourd – Inside Passage 

6. Tie:

Jussi Adler-Olsen – The Absent One
Craig Johnson – The Cold Dish
Ross Allison – Spooked In Seattle
Maurizio De Giovanni – Day Of The Dead

9. Tie:

Jussi Adler-Olsen – A Conspiracy Of Faith
Jussi Adler-Olsen – The Keeper Of Lost Causes
Jo Nesbo – Cockroaches 
Ben H. Winters – The Last Policeman 
Curt Colbert – Seattle Noir