The Indie Mystery & Thriller Bestseller List

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Based on sales at hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending March 3, 2013.

1. Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn, Crown, $25, 9780307588364

2. Death Comes to Pemberley
P.D. James, Vintage, $15, 9780307950659

3. Sweet Tooth
Ian McEwan, Nan A. Talese, $26.95, 9780385536820

4. Believing the Lie
Elizabeth George, NAL, $16, 9780451237699

5. The Racketeer
John Grisham, Doubleday, $28.95, 9780385535144

6. The Art Forger
B.A. Shapiro, Algonquin, $23.95, 9781616201326

7. Suspect
Robert Crais, Putnam Adult, $27.95, 9780399161483

8. Speaking From Among the Bones
Alan Bradley, Delacorte, $24, 9780385344036

9. The Black Box
Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316069434

10. Standing in Another Man’s Grave
Ian Rankin, Reagan Arthur Books, $25.99, 9780316224581

11. V Is for Vengeance
Sue Grafton, Berkley, $7.99, 9780425250563

12. The Keeper of Lost Causes
Jussi Adler-Olsen, Plume, $16, 9780452297906

13. The Snowman
Jo Nesbø, Vintage, $14.95, 9780307742995

14. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley, Bantam, $15, 9780385343497

15. Notorious Nineteen
Janet Evanovich, Bantam, $28, 9780345527745

16. The Affair
Lee Child, Dell, $9.99, 9780440246305

17. Alex Cross, Run
James Patterson, Little Brown, $28.99, 9780316097512

18. Kinsey and Me
Sue Grafton, A Marian Wood Book, $27.95, 9780399163838

19. Raylan
Elmore Leonard, Morrow, $14.99, 9780062119476

20. Still Life
Louise Penny, St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.99, 9780312541538

21. Die Trying
Lee Child, Jove, $9.99, 9780515142242

22. A Wanted Man
Lee Child, Delacorte, $28, 9780385344333

23. One Shot
Lee Child, Dell, $9.99, 9780345538192

24. Elegy for Eddie
Jacqueline Winspear, Harper Perennial, $15.99, 9780062049582

25. The Stonecutter
Camilla Lackberg, Free Press, $15.99, 9781451621860