Though no one suggested that the popularity of crime fiction is slipping, occasionally you get a sign that indicates you were more right than you ever knew.According to The Book Standard, Janet Evanovich’s dozenth novel in the Stephanie Plum series, Twelve Sharp, debuted with the top single-week sales thus far for 2006, beating out even the mass market edition of The Da Vinci Code and the much-talked-about A Million Little Pieces by fictionist wannabe James Frey.
The latest in Evanovich’s numbered Stephanie Plum series, Twelve Sharp, sold 163,000 in its debut week, landing it at the No. 1 spot on The Book Standard’s Overall and Fiction Charts, to be updated tomorrow for the week ending June 18.Though Evanovich hardly needs the plug, this time out, Stephanie is battling her usual demons of which guy to choose, which family member makes her the least crazy and which car will she manage to not blow up. Publisher’s Weekly says:
The mixture of slapstick and gunplay that has put Evanovich’s series about a sassy, less than competent New Jersey bounty hunter at the top of bestseller lists once again works its magic in Stephanie Plum's latest caper.The Book Standard item is here.
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My fault. It might have been a double negative.
Here's what I meant: in case anyone ever suggested sales of crime fiction was slipping, 163,000 copies of Evanovich's new book would put a lie that. That's a lot of mystery.
There was probably a better way of putting it.
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