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With her meticulously researched plots and well-drawn characters, American Elizabeth George consistently outclasses fellow top 10 cloak-and-dagger chicks Patricia Cornwell, Sandra Brown, Iris Johansen, and Catherine Coulter. Her latest thoroughly British thriller is no exception: The 10th book in the Lynley-Havers series, In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner (four pressruns have more than 200,000 copies in print), follows the detective pair as they investigate a grisly double murder. Bloody marvelous!
FICTION WEEKS ON LIST
1 BLACK NOTICE Patricia Cornwell, Putnam, $25.95 5 2 THE ALIBI Sandra Brown, Warner, $25.95 1 3 DARK LADY Richard North Patterson, Knopf, $25.95 2 4 ASSASSINS Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Tyndale House, $22.99 5 5 IN PURSUIT OF THE PROPER SINNER Elizabeth George, Bantam, $25.95 1 6 HANNIBAL Thomas Harris, Delacorte, $27.95 13 7 WHITE OLEANDER Janet Fitch, Little, Brown, $24 18 8 THE KILLING GAME Iris Johansen, Bantam, $23.95 1 9 MOTHER OF PEARL Melinda Haynes, Hyperion, $23.95 12 10 THE EDGE Catherine Coulter, Putnam, $22.95 5
NONFICTION
1 TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Mitch Albom, Doubleday, $19.95 96 2 LIFE STRATEGIES Phillip C. McGraw, Hyperion, $21.95 16 3 SUZANNE SOMERS' GET SKINNY ON FABULOUS FOOD Suzanne Somers, Crown, $24 18 4 YESTERDAY, I CRIED Iyanla Vanzant, Simon & Schuster, $22 16 5 THE ART OF HAPPINESS His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler, Riverhead, $22.95 29 6 BODY FOR LIFE Bill Phillips and Michael D'Orso, HarperCollins, $25 12 7 SUGAR BUSTERS! H. Leighton Steward, Morrison C. Bethea, 68 Sam S. Andrews, and Luis A. Balart, Ballantine, $22 8 THE GREATEST GENERATION Tom Brokaw, Random House, $24.95 39 9 DIANA IN SEARCH OF HERSELF Sally Bedell Smith, Times Books, $25 3 10 THE OTHER SIDE AND BACK Sylvia Browne with Lindsay Harrison, Dutton, $23.95 6
TRADE PAPERBACKS
1 THE PILOT'S WIFE Anita Shreve, Little, Brown/Back Bay, $13.95 23 2 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA Arthur Golden, Vintage, $14 33 3 ANGELA'S ASHES Frank McCourt, S&S/Touchstone, $14 15 4 CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE COLLEGE SOUL J. Canfield, M.V. Hansen, K. Kirberger, and D. Clark, Health Communications, $12.95 5 5 IN THE MEANTIME Iyanla Vanzant, S&S/Fireside, $13 1 6 LEFT BEHIND Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Tyndale House, $13.99 5 7 SUZANNE SOMERS' EAT GREAT, LOSE WEIGHT Suzanne Somers, Three Rivers, $15 68 8 DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD Rebecca Wells, HarperPerennial, $13.50 82 9 MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL John Berendt, Vintage, $12 9 10 THE SEAT OF THE SOUL Gary Zukav, S&S/Fireside, $12 36
SOURCE: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
