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May 2009 Bestsellers 

from reporting members of IMBA

Hardcover

1 – Charlaine Harris, Dead and Gone, Ace

2 – Lee Child, Gone Tomorrow, Delacorte

3 – Michael Connelly, The Scarecrow, Little Brown

4 – Laurie R. King, The Language of Bees, Bantam

5 – Elmore Leonard, Road Dogs, Harper

6 – tie

      George Pelecanos, The Way Home, Little Brown

      Andrew Grant, Even, St. Martin’s

      Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Delecorte

      Greg Rucka, Walking Dead, Bantam

10 – Elaine Viets, Killer Cuts, Obsidian

Softcover

1 – Leann Sweeney, The Cat, the Quilt and the Corpse, Obsidian

2 - tie

      Elaine Viets, Clubbed to Death, Obsidian

      Elizabeth George, Careless in Red, Harper

4 – Julia Spencer-Fleming, I Shall Not Want, St. Martin’s

5 – Mary Ann Shaffer, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel, Dial

6 – tie

C.J. Box, Blood Trail, Berkley

      Tom Rob Smith, Child 44, Grand Central

8 – Curt Colbert, Seattle Noir, Akashic

9 – tie

Seth Harwood, Jack Wakes Up, Three Rivers

Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Gallery, Avon

Bestsellers for April 2009

from reporting members of IMBA

Hardcovers

1 – Nevada Barr, Borderline, Putnam

2 – Lisa Scottoline, Look Again, St. Martin ’s

3 – Harlan Coben, Long Lost, Dutton

4 – Mary Higgins Clark, Just Take My Heart, Simon & Schuster

5 – tie

      Diane Mott Davidson, Fatally Flaky, Morrow

      Susan Wittig Albert, Wormwood, Berkley

7 – Carola Dunn, Manna from Hades, St. Martin ’s

8 – Donna Leon, About Face, Atlantic Monthly

9 – Laurie R. King, The Language of Bees, Bantam

10 – tie

      Alexander McCall Smith, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built, Pantheon

      David Hewson, Dante’s Numbers, Delacorte

      Laura Lippman, Life Sentences, Morrow

Softcover

1 – Donna Leon, The Girl of his Dreams, Penguin

2 -  Nevada Barr, Winter Study, Berkley

3 – Susan Wittig Albert, Nightshade, Berkley

4 – Harley Jane Kozak, A Date You Can’t Refuse, Broadway

5 – Carolyn Hart, Death Walked In, Avon

6 – Denise Swanson, Murder of a Royal Pain, Obsidian

7 – Anne Perry, Buckingham Palace Gardens , Ballantine

8 – Jane Haddam, Cheating at Solitaire, St. Martin ’s

9 – tie

      Randy Wayne White, Grand Cayman Scam, Signet

      Karin Alvetgen, Missing, Felony & Mayhem

Bestsellers for March 2009

from reporting members of IMBA

Hardcover

1 - Peter Robinson, All the Colors of Darkness, Morrow
2 - tie
Randy Wayne White, Dead Silence, Putnam
Jacqueline Winspear, Among the Mad, Holt
4 - Barry Eisler, Fault Line, Ballantine
5 - Robert B. Parker, Night and Day, Putnam
6 - Dana Stabenow, Whisper to the Blood, St. Martin's
7 - Steig Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Knopf
8 - tie
Earl Emerson, Cape Disappointment, Ballantine
Walter Mosley, The Long Fall, Riverhead
10 - Joanne Fluke, Cream Puff Murder, Kensington


Softcover

1 - Hannah Dennison, Scoop!, Signet
2 - Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries in the Nick of Time, Berkley
3 - tie
James W. Hall, Hell's Bay, St. Martin's
Deanna Raybourn, Silent on the Moor, Mira
5 - Rhys Bowen, Tell Me, Pretty Maiden, St. Martin's
6 - Bryan Gruley, Starvation Lake, Touchstone
7 - Andrea Camilleri, August Heat, Penguin
8 - Victoria Laurie, Ghouls Just Want to Have Fun, Obsidian
9 - Alexander McCall Smith, The Miracle at Speedy Motors, Anchor
10 - Laura Childs, The Silver Needle Murder, Berkley



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