Here are the bestselling crime fiction titles for May from the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association:
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
6 – Andrew Grant, Even, St. Martin’s
6 – Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Delecorte
6 – 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
2 – 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
6 – tom Rob Smith, Child 44, Grand Central
8 – Curt Colbert, ed, Seattle Noir, Akashic
9 – (tie) Seth Harwood, Jack Wakes Up, Three Rivers
9 – Katherine Hall Page, The Body in the Gallery, Avon
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