Digital Bestsellers Lists: McLean takes pole position
Rachel McLean’s The Blue Pool Murders (Ackroyd) surged into the Bookstat number one for the week ending 18th February, knocking Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove (Sceptre) from the top. This is McLean’s second Bookstat top spot within a year, after The Fossil Beach Murders topped the chart in April 2022.
Daniel Hurst’s The Doctor’s Wife (Bookouture) made a surgical strike in fourth place, as Beth O’Leary’s The No-Show (Quercus) bounced into fifth. Jodi Ellen Malpas’ The Rising, Coco Mellors’ Cleopatra and Frankenstein (Fourth Estate), the current Waterstones Fiction Book of the Month, and Rachel Abbott’s No More Lies (Black Dot) also made their débuts.
J D Robb’s Encore in Death (Little,Brown) topped the Publisher E-Book Ranking for the week ending 11th February. Sara Nisha Adams’ The Reading List (HarperCollins) held second, as Jojo Moyes’ Someone’s Else Shoes (Penguin) hot-footed it up the chart to third. C K McDonnell’s Love Will Tear Us Apart (Transworld) was the second-highest new entry in the top 10, betraying a perhaps less-than-positive romantic mindset for the average e-book buyer in the week leading up to Valentine’s Day.
Clarification: Hachette has stated that A Man Called Ove sold 7,133; The Doctor’s Wife 5,362; and The No-Show 4,193.
