Lee Child

A list of national bestsellers compiled by Publishers Weekly 1. FEARLESS FOURTEEN, by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's) 2. SAIL, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Little, Brown) 3. ROGUE, by Danielle Steel (Delacorte) 4. THE HOST, by Stephenie Meyer...

++++++++++++++++++++ || HARDCOVER FICTION LAST WEEK || || || || 1. || Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's, $27.95): The latest novel in the series about bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. || 1 || || || || || || 2. || Sail by James...

++++++++++++++++++++ || Fiction || weeks on list || || 1. || Fearless Fourteen by Janet Evanovich (St. Martin's Press: $27.95) Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum faces a stalker, a kidnapper and an old robbery. || 2 || || 2. || The Enchantress of Florence...

A Jack Reacher-thriller is as comfortable as an old pair of shoes. For Reacher is seldom unpredictable. He arrives in a town carrying only the clothes on his back and within a matter of hours he's involved in some skulduggery, which usually brings...

FICTION ++++++++++++++++++++ || No || LW || Title Author Weeks on list || || 1 || (1) || Fearless Fourteen Janet Evanovich 2 || || 2 || (2) || Sail James Patterson and Howard Roughan 3 || || 3 || (-) || Rogue Danielle Steel 1 || || 4 ||...

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. Sail. James Patterson and Howard Roughan. (Little, Brown, $27.99.) A sailing vacation turns into a disaster when someone attempts to destroy a family. 2. Nothing to Lose. Lee Child. (Delacorte, $27.) Jack Reacher exposes the...

FICTION AMERICAN QUILT The Lazarus Project By Aleksandar Hemon Riverhead, $24.95 A young Eastern European writer becomes obsessed with another immigrant who was killed by a Chicago police chief a century earlier. Set in Chicago, emigre Aleksandar...

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By Richard Rayner "Ulysses" (Vintage: $17 paper) is the description of a single day, June 16, 1904, a day in the mingled lives of characters walking, talking, dreaming, eating, drinking, mourning and climaxing their way through the hours of an average...

Plot is good luck for listeners Bad Luck and Trouble. By Lee Child; read by Dick Hill. Random House Audio. Unabridged, 10 CDs, 13 hours. $44.95. Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels are a contemporary spin on the old-fashioned western. Reacher, a former...

In February 2004, former New York Times Book Review editor Charles McGrath created a minor controversy with an essay in which he wondered why most contemporary thriller writers "don't seem to be interested in the post-9/11 landscape." The mystery world is...

Having wrested readers away from mysteries, thriller writers band together to hunt down some literary cachet. As a glance at any bestseller list will attest, thrillers have become America's favorite reads, edging aside their venerable cousins, mystery...