Digital Bestseller Lists: Kirk knocks Osman off the top spot
J D Kirk’s Here Lie the Dead (Zertex Crime) leapfrogged Richard Osman’s The Bullet that Missed (Penguin) in the Bookstat top spot, after just one week atop the chart. Kirk has charted top of the e-book chart twice before, with Ahead of the Game and Colder Than the Grave both notching up number ones in 2021.
Miranda Cowley Heller’s The Paper Palace and Paula Hawkins’ A Slow Fire Burning (both Penguin) held fourth and fifth place respectively, as Kimberley Belle’s The Marriage Lie (HQ), Sara Cox’s Thrown (Coronet) and Susan Lewis’ Who’s Lying Now? (HarperCollins) rose up the top 10.
Osman’s The Bullet that Missed did top the Publisher E-Book Ranking, for the same week its hardback smashed records in the Nielsen BookScan print charts. Both The Man Who Died Twice and The Thursday Murder Club (both Penguin) climbed up the top 10—perhaps some dedicated newcomers to the series were attempting to finish the two previous titles before cracking into the new one.
Though non-fiction e-book hits are rare, Adam Kay’s Undoctored (Orion) charting will be no surprise to long-term fans for the Publisher E-Book Ranking—between 2018 and 2020, Kay’s This is Going to Hurt (Picador) barely left the chart’s top spot.
Clarification: Hachette has stated that The Ink Black Heart has sold 3,581 copies, Thrown 3,517 and The Wedding Party 3,046.
