Angela Marsons’ Hidden Scars (Bookouture) was fully visible in the Bookstat number one, soaring into the top spot for the week ending 12th November. Marsons has an incredible record in the Bookstat e-book rankings, with four of her titles hitting the top spot since The Bookseller began running the chart in January 2020, most recently Six Graves in May of this year.
Hidden Scars was closely followed by J R Ellis’ The Railway Murders (Thomas & Mercer), in second. Claire Douglas’ The Girls Who Disappeared (Penguin) held firm in third place, as Michael Connelly’s Desert Star (Orion) missed out by an estimated 249 units. It was a strong week for hardboiled private detective series, with James Patterson and David Baldacci debuting in the top 10.
Julia Shackman’s The Cottage in the Highlands (One More Chapter) reached the heights of the Publisher E-Book Ranking for the week ending 5th November, defeating Lee and Andrew Child’s No Plan B (Transworld) from the week before. Matthew Perry’s Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing (Headline) and Ben Macintyre’s SAS (Penguin) both stormed the top 10, in a surprisingly verdant week for non-fiction. With SAS’s adaptation currently broadcasting on BBC One and Perry being of “Friends” infamy, it seemed the small screen was a strong influence on the Kindle screen that week.
Clarification: Hachette has stated that Hidden Scars sold 26,907 units; Desert Star 9,315; Bad Actors 5,886; and The Girlfriend 3,311.