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2008 Annual Bestsellers

from reporting members of IMBA

Hardcover

1 – Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse, Ace

2 – Donna Andrews, Cockatiels at Seven, St. Martin’s

3 – Lee Child, Nothing to Lose, Bantam

4 – Dennis Lehane, The Given Day, Morrow

5 – Michael Connelly, The Brass Verdict, Little Brown

6 - tie

            James W. Hall, Hell’s Bay, St. Martin’s

            Elizabeth George, Careless in Red, Morrow

8 – Robert Crais, Chasing Darkness, Simon & Schuster

9 – Jacqueline Winspear, Incomplete Revenge, Holt

10 – tie

            Daniel Silva, Moscow Rules, Putnam

            James Lee Burke, Swann Peak, Simon & Schuster

Softcover

1 – Lisa Lutz, The Spellman Files, Simon & Schuster

2 – Tana French, In the Woods, Penguin

3 – Brent Ghelfi, Volk’s Game, Picador

4 – Lorna Barrett, Murder is Binding, Berkley

5 – Louise Penny, Still Life, St. Martin’s

6 – tie

            Christopher Fowler, Full Dark House, Bantam

            Leonie Swann, Three Bags Full, Flying Dolphin

8 – Tony Burton, ed., Dying in a Winter Wonderland, Wolfmont

9 – Clare Langley-Hawthorne, Consequences of Sin, Penguin

10 – Jacqueline Winspear, Masie Dobbs, Penguin