1. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - by Stieg Larsson; translated from the Swedish by Reg Keeland

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 05/25/2010
ISBN-13: 9780307269997
ISBN-10: 030726999X

The 3rd volume of a trilogy about a Swedish hacker and a journalist.

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2. Tough Customer: A Novel - by Sandra Brown

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/10/2010
ISBN-13: 9781416563105
ISBN-10: 1416563105

A private investigator pursues a deranged killer who is stalking the daughter he never knew.

3. The Help - by Kathryn Stockett

Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/10/2009
ISBN-13: 9780399155345
ISBN-10: 0399155341

A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s Mississippi.

4. Star Island - by Carl Hiaasen

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/27/2010
ISBN-13: 9780307272584
ISBN-10: 0307272583

A paparazzo attempting to kidnap a drug-addled pop star grabs her stunt double by mistake.

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5. Veil of Night: A Novel - by Linda Howard

Publisher: Ballantine Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/10/2010
ISBN-13: 9780345506894
ISBN-10: 0345506898

There are many suspects when a bridezilla is murdered.

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6. The Vigilantes - by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/10/2010
ISBN-13: 9780399156632
ISBN-10: 0399156631

Members of the Philadelphia Police Department are plagued by vigilante groups.

7. The Red Queen: A Novel - by Philippa Gregory

Publisher: Touchstone
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/03/2010
ISBN-13: 9781416563723
ISBN-10: 1416563725

More intrigue during the War of the Roses; by the author of The Other Boleyn Girl.

8. The Rembrandt Affair - by Daniel Silva

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/20/2010
ISBN-13: 9780399156588
ISBN-10: 0399156585

The art restorer and assassin Gabriel Allon discovers that there are deadly secrets behind a stolen painting.

9. Private: Los Angeles, New York, San Diego, London, Chicago, Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Rome - by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro

Publisher: Little, Brown
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/28/2010
ISBN-13: 9780316096157
ISBN-10: 0316096156

The head of an investigation company pursues the murderer of his best friend's wife.

10. Fly Away Home: A Novel - by Jennifer Weiner

Publisher: Atria Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/13/2010
ISBN-13: 9780743294270
ISBN-10: 0743294270

A senator's extramarital affair affects his wife and daughters.

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11. The Search - by Nora Roberts

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/06/2010
ISBN-13: 9780399156571
ISBN-10: 0399156577

The only survivor of a serial killer has found peace, but her life is shaken by a new man and a copycat murderer.

12. Sizzling Sixteen - by Janet Evanovich

Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/22/2010
ISBN-13: 9780312383305
ISBN-10: 0312383304

The bounty hunter Stephanie Plum comes to the aid of a cousin with gambling debts.

13. Death on the D-List - by Nancy Grace

Publisher: Hyperion
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/10/2010
ISBN-13: 9781401323134
ISBN-10: 1401323138

Fading celebrities who appear on Hailey Dean's TV show are being murdered.

14. Cure - by Robin Cook

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/10/2010
ISBN-13: 9780399156625
ISBN-10: 0399156623

A New York City medical examiner attempts to figure out whether a Japanese biotech researcher has died naturally or been murdered.

15. The Glass Rainbow: A Dave Robicheaux Novel - by James Lee Burke

Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 07/13/2010
ISBN-13: 9781439128299
ISBN-10: 1439128294

A man with ties to an evil ex-convict is dating the Louisiana detective Dave Robicheaux's daughter.

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These lists are an expanded version of those appearing in the August 29 print edition of the Book Review. Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending August 14, at many thousands of venues where a wide range of general interest books are sold nationwide.