Top Thriller And Mystery Novels In South Florida
By Editor • Dec 2nd, 2009 • Category: Uncategorized
At South Florida Adventures we love thrillers and mysteries that get our hearts pumping fast. Here are the November best sellers at Murder on the Beach, a Delray Beach-based bookstore.
Hardcovers
1. 9 Dragons by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $28)
2. Stuff To Spy For by Don Bruns (Oceanview, $26)
3. In Their Blood by Sharon Potts (Oceanview, $26)
4. Wyatt’s Revenge by H. Terrell Griffin (Oceanview, $26)
5. Quiet Belief In Angels by R. J. Ellory (Putnam, $25)
6. Holiday Grind by Cleo Coyle (Berkley, $24)
7. The Test by Patricia Gussin (Oceanview, $26)
8. True Blue by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing, $28)
9. 13 1/2 by Nevada Barr (Vanguard Press, $26)
10. Monster In The Box by Ruth Rendell (Simon & Schuster, $26)
Mass Market
1. The Fashion Hound Murders by Elaine Viets (Berkley, $7)
2. Take Me For A Ride by Karen Kendall (Signet, $7)
3. Bookplate Special by Lorna Barrett (Berkley, $8)
4. The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown, $10)
5. A Rule Against Murder by Louise Penny (Minotaur, $8)
6. Warning At One by Ann Purser (Berkley, $8)
7. Santa Clawed by Rita Mae Brown (Random House, $8)
8. Ghost At Work by Carolyn Hart (William Morrow, $8)
9. Closely Akin To Murder by Joan Hess (Minotaur, $7)
10. The Price Of Butcher’s Meat by Reginald Hill (HarperCollins, $8)
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This is great news, I was thrilled to see some of my favorite authors on this list and look forward to buying releases from authors who are new to me. There’s something special about Florida mysteries. I did a piece for NPR on three south Florida mysteries written by south Florida authors.(Brian Antoni, the late Barbara Parker and Caridad Pineiro) Mary Kennedy http://www.marykennedy.net DEAD AIR, (Penguin, Jan 5, 2010) The Talk Radio Mysteries, set in south Florida
Very happy to see Carolyn Hart’s GHOST AT WORK on the list. It’s absolutely delightful, I reviewed it along with MERRY, MERRY GHOST. I’m a huge fan of her work, her plots are so intricately woven and her characters are wonderful. Whenever I finish a Carolyn Hart novel, I can’t wait to read the next one in the series.
Well there you go! Michael Connelly gets first place. He probably deserves it ( great book), but it’s nice to be in second. Good company.
DB