Digital Bestseller Lists: Cosy Coles hots up at the summit
Damien Boyd’s Carnival of Dreams (Thomas & Mercer) roller-coasted straight into the Bookstat number one for the week ending 18th June. The latest title in the DI Nick Dixon series became the second on the trot to score a number one spot in the e-book chart.
Joy Ellis’ Trick of the Night (Joffe) thundered into second place, as Patricia Gibney’s The Guilty Girl (Bookouture) hit third. James Patterson’s Deadly Cross (Cornerstone) checked off seventh place, as Beth O’Leary’s romance The No-Show (Quercus) defied a crime-heavy chart to début in ninth place.
In a battle of the cosy-crime Richards, Reverend Coles emerged as the victor, with Murder Before Evensong (W&N) débuting atop the Publisher E-Book Ranking for the week ending 11th June and knocking Osman from the top spot. Mark Billingham’s The Murder Book (Little, Brown) débuted in third, as M J Arlidge’s Cat and Mouse (Orion) clawed into sixth.
Ali Hazelwood’s The Love Hypothesis has shifted more than 140,000 copies in paperback since publication in October, as one of the leading TikTok romances in the early 2022 boom. Her newest title, Stuck With You (Little,Brown) , débuted in eighth place in the E-Book Ranking.
Clarification: Hachette has stated that The Guilty Girl sold 9,514 copies; and The No-Show 4,595.
