IMBA Bestsellers for August

Here's the list of bestselling crime fiction titles in the month of August from the member stores of the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association:

Hardcover

 

1 - Steig Larsson, The Girl Who Played with Fire, Knopf

2 - Kathy Reichs, 206 Bones, Scribner

3 - Rennie Airth, The Dead of Winter, Viking

4 - David Rosenfelt, New Tricks, Grand Central

5 - Sophie Littlefield, Bad Day for Sorry, St. Martin’s

6 – James Lee Burke, Rain Gods, Simon & Schuster

7 – tie

      Rhys Bowen, Royal Flush, Berkley

      Brent Ghelfi, The Venona Cable, Holt

9 – tie

      Daniel Silva, The Defector, Putnam

      Margaret Maron, Sand Sharks, Grand Central

 

Softcover

 

1 – Steig Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Vintage

2 – Aaron Elkins, Uneasy Relations, Berkley

3 – Juliet Blackwell, Secondhand Spirits, Berkley

4 – Michael Connelly, The Brass Verdict, Little Brown

5 - Rhys Bowen, A Royal Pain, Berkley

6 – tie

      Elizabeth Lynn Casey, Sew Deadly, Berkley

      Jennie Bentley, Spackled and Spooked, Berkley

8 – Ellen Crosby, The Bordeaux Betrayal, Pocket

9 -  Deborah Crombie, Where Memories Lie, Avon

10 – Michael Koryta, Envy the Night, St. Martin’s