Digital Bestseller Lists: Lisa proves the Jewell in the crown
Lisa Jewell’s The Night She Disappeared (Penguin) has returned to the Bookstat top spot for the week ending 23rd April, after a one-week hiatus courtesy of Rachel McLean’s The Fossil Beach Murders (Ackroyd). Jewell’s The Family Upstairs was previously a Bookstat stalwart, notching up a string of appearances in the e-book chart. Though the author was known for writing romance in the early Noughties, her pivot to psychological thrillers has paid off, with The Family Upstairs and 2017’s Then She Was Gone her top two bestsellers in paperback through BookScan.
Ashley Audrain’s The Push (Penguin) and Claire Douglas’ The Couple at No 9 (Penguin) returned to the Bookstat top three, as L J Ross’ self-published Bamburgh bounced up into fourth place, and Jojo Moyes’ The One Plus One and Margaret Atwood’s short story “My Evil Mother” (Amazon) made their débuts.
Jodi Taylor’s A Catalogue of Catastrophe (Headline), the 13th title in the author’s Chronicles of St Mary’s series, charted top of the Publisher E-Book Ranking for the week ending 16th April. Nicola May, whose previ-ously self-published e-book The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay became the third-bestselling title through Amazon in 2019, returns to the Publisher E-Book Ranking with Rainbows End in Ferry Lane Market (Hodder & Stoughton), in second place.
