Crime is prevalent and ever-popular--in the book world at any rate. James Patterson's 7th Heaven comes in at number one again this week, indicating readers just can't get enough of the ‘women's murder club'. Or any other felonious books it seems ... two novels that have made it into the bestsellers this week are The Appeal by John Grisham at number three, Linda Fairstein's Killer Heat at number four; and second in the fastest movers chart is Strangers in Death by J D Robb.
This article from Thorpe Bowker's Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker
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