James Patterson and Erik Larson Debut on the Indie Bestseller List

By Maryann Yin 

Dead Wake Cover (GalleyCat)We’ve collected the books debuting on Indiebound’s Indie Bestseller List for the week ending March 27, 2016–a sneak peek at the books everybody will be talking about next month.

(Debuted at #2 in Paperback Nonfiction) Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of The Lusitania by Erik Larson: “On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone.” (March 2016)

(Debuted at #5 in Hardcover Fiction) Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben: “Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured by her nanny cam while she is at work: her two-year-old daughter playing with Maya’s husband, Joe—who had been brutally murdered two weeks earlier. The provocative question at the heart of the mystery: Can you believe everything you see with your own eyes, even when you desperately want to?” (March 2016)

(Debuted at #10 in Early & Middle Grade Readers) Jacky Ha-Ha written by James Patterson & Chris Grabenstein: “With her irresistible urge to tell a joke in every situation–even when she really, really shouldn’t–twelve-year-old Jacky Ha-Ha loves to make people laugh. And cracking wise helps distract her from thinking about not-so-funny things in her life, like her mom serving in a dangerous, faraway war, and a dad who’s hardly every home.” (March 2016)