Mysteries and thrillers provide cerebral adventures that get the blood pumping just like with physical adventures. So Delray’s Murder on the Beach, the only mystery/thriller bookstore in the region, shared its August best seller list with SouthFloridaAdventures.com.

Jonathon King, No. 8 in the hardcover category, is a former college basketball player and former Sun Sentinel reporter whose novels are largely set in the Everglades and other parts of South Florida. In 2003 King won the Edgar for best first novel for The Blue Edge of Midnight.

Hardcover

1.  Floodgates by Mary Anna Evans (Poisoned Pen Press, $24.95)

2.  The Defector by Daniel Silva (Putnam, $26.95)

3.  Royal Flush by Rhys Bowen (Berkeley, $24.95)

4.  The Devil’s Company by David Liss (Random House, $25.95)

5.  Intervention by Robin Cook (Putnam, $25.95)

6.  The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson (Random House, $25.95)

7.  Below Zero by CJ Box (Putnam, $24.95)

8.  The Styx by Jonathon King (Middle River Press, $24.95)

9.  The Lost Throne by Chris Kuzneski (Putnam, $25.95)

10. Rules of Vengeance by Christopher Reich (Random House, $25.95)

Trade Paper

1.  Mama Rides Shotgun by Deborah Sharp (Midnight Ink, $14.95)

2.  Legally Dead by Edna Buchanan (Pocket Books, $15)

3.  Blue Heaven by CJ Box (St Martin’s, $13.95)

4.  Siren Of The Waters by Michael Genelin (Soho Press, $13)

5.  Wicked Palm Beach by Eliot Kleinberg (History Press, $19.99)

6.  Murder In The Museum Of Man by Alfred Alcorn (Random House, $14.95)

7.  Haunted Fort Lauderdale by John Marc Carr, History Press, $17.99)

8.  Folly Du Jour by Barbara Cleverly (Random House, $14)

9.  Huge by James Fuerst (Random House, $14)

10. Real World by Natsuo Kirino (Random House, $14)

Mass Market

1.  A Royal Pain by Rhys Bowen (Berkeley, $7.99)

2.  Where Memories Lie by Deborah Crombie (HarperCollins, $7.99)

3.  Murder On Bank Street by Victoria Thompson (Berkeley, $7.99)

4.  Blue Heaven by CJ Box (St Martin’s $7.99)

5.  Vi Agra Falls by Mary Daheim (HarperCollins, $7.99)

6.  The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Random House, $7.99)

7.  Bundle of Trouble by Diana Orgain (Berkeley, $6.99)

8.  Whack ‘N’ Roll by Gail Oust (Berkeley, $6.99)

9.  Walkers Of Dembly by MC Beaton (St Martin’s, $6.99)

10. Sew Deadly by Elizabeth Lynn Casey (Berkeley, $6.99)