Penguin Berkley Books author Jennie Bentley’s debut Do-It-Yourself mystery Fatal fixer-upper has cracked the top 10 of IMBA bestselling crime-fiction titles in softcover for the month of November! Not bad for the first month of your first book. See list below.

Here are the bestselling crime-fiction titles in November as reported by the members of the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association:
Softcover (not divided into trade and mass this month because “results were too divergent to make two meaningful lists”)

1 – Elaine Viets, Murder with All the Trimmings, Obsidian
2 – Barbara Cleverly, Bright Hair About the Bone, Delta
3 – M.C. Beaton, Kissing Christmas Goodbye, St. Martin’s
4 – C.S. Challinor, Christmas is Murder, Midnight Ink
5 – Jennie Bentley, Fatal Fixer-Upper, Berkley
5 – Clare Langley-Hawthorne, The Serpent and the Scorpion, Penguin
5 – Jeanne Dams, Indigo Christmas, Perseverance Press
8 – John Hart, Down River, St. Martin’s
8 – Earl Derr Biggers, The House Without=2 0a Key, Academy Chicago Press
10 – Kate Kingsbury, Ringing In Mur der, Berkley
10 – Archer Mayor, Chat, Grand Central
10 – Cynthia Baxter, Murder Packs a Suitcase, Bantam
10 – Kate Kingsbury, Shrouds of Holy, Berkley