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Sunday, June 27, 2010

NY Times Fiction Bestsellers

Although I love many different types of writing, Fiction is my passion-particularly mysteries. For those of you who share this passion, the following books are the NY Times top 10 Fiction bestsellers for this week:

1. THE OVERTON WINDOW, by Glenn Beck. (Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts, $26.) A public relations executive and the woman he loves fight to expose a conspiracy to transform America. Click here to see the editorial review listed on Amazon.

2. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson. (Knopf, $27.95.) The third volume of a trilogy about a Swedish hacker and a journalist. Click here for an editorial review.

3. THE LION, by Nelson DeMille. (Grand Central, $27.99.) John Corey, now a federal agent, pursues a Libyan terrorist who has returned to America bent on revenge. Click here for an editorial review.

4. THE PASSAGE, by Justin Cronin. (Ballantine, $27.) More than a hundred years in the future, a small group resists the vampires who have taken over North America. Click here for an editorial review.

5. WHIPLASH, by Catherine Coulter. (Putnam, 26.95.) The F.B.I. agents Dillon Savich and Lacey Sherlock help investigate misdeeds at a pharmaceutical company. Click here for an editorial review.

6. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett. (Amy Einhorn/Putnam, $24.95.) A young white woman and two black maids in 1960s ­Mississippi. Click here for an editorial review.

7. FRANKENSTEIN: LOST SOULS, by Dean Koontz. (Bantam, $27.) Book 4 in the reimagining of the classic tale. Click here for an editorial review.

8. THE SPY, by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott. (Putnam, $27.95.) In 1908, a detective investigates spies who are trying to keep America from developing dreadnought battleships. Click here for an editorial review.

9. LOWCOUNTRY SUMMER, by Dorothea Benton Frank. (William Morrow/HarperCollins, $25.99.) In this sequel to “Plantation,” a woman returns home after her mother’s death to encounter old secrets and lies. Click here for an editorial review.

10. SPIES OF THE BALKANS, by Alan Furst. (Random House, $26.) A police official in Salonika is surrounded by spies from many nations on the eve of the German invasion of Greece in 1940. Click here for an editorial review.

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