Digital Bestseller Lists: Mackie returns to the top
Bella Mackie’s How to Kill Your Family (The Borough Press) returned to the Bookstat number one for the first time since the very start of the year. The title’s paperback debuted in the Nielsen BookScan top spot in mid-April. J D Kirk’s Westward (Zertex Crime) debuted in second place, with Lucy Clarke’s One of the Girls (HarperCollins) rising into third place and Michael Connelly’s The Dark Hours (Orion) jumping into fourth place.
John Grisham’s Camino Winds (Hodder & Stoughton) hit sixth place, closely followed by Delia Owens’ Where the Crawdads Sing (Little,Brown), limbering up for its film adaptation landing in UK cinemas this week.
Mhairi McFarlane’s Mad About You (HarperCollins) also climbed back to eighth, after debuting in both e-book charts in April.
Tess Gerritsen’s Listen to Me (Transworld) debuted atop the Publisher E-Book Ranking for the week ending 9th July, knocking the previous week’s number one Miranda Cowley Heller’s The Paper Palace (Penguin) into second place. Adele Parks’ psychological thriller One Last Secret (HQ) made its debut in fifth place, as Ali Hazelwood’s Below Zero (Little,Brown) and Suzanne Wright’s Reaper (Little,Brown) hit seventh and eighth.
Clarification: Hachette has stated that The Dark Hours sold 9,550 copies, Camino Winds 4,566 and Where the Crawdads Sing 4,473.
