Wall Street Journal Best Selling Books

Fiction

January 20, 2005

No.			Last Week
1		Dan Brown. The Da Vinci Code While in Paris, Robert Langdon learns the curator of the Louvre has been murdered, his body surrounded by bizarre ciphers. As Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu attempt to decipher the clues, they realize the riddles are connected to Da Vinci's works and may be linked to a mystery that stretches deep into the history of the Catholic Church.	1
2		Lillian Jackson Braun. The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell James Qwilleran and his famous felines Koko and Yum Yum are back for another mystery-solving stint in the bestselling Cat Who . . . series. While the town of Pickax is swept up in its sesquicentennial celebrations, a hurricane brews, and members of a family fall deathly ill. Qwill has his work cut out for him.	New
3		W. E. B. Griffin. The Hostage An American diplomat's wife is kidnapped, and her husband murdered before her eyes. Her children will be next, if she doesn't tell the kidnappers where her brother is--a brother who may know quite a bit about the burgeoning UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal. There is an awful lot of money flying around, an awful lot of hands reaching out to grab it--and some of those hands don't mind shedding as much blood as it takes.	2
4		Judith McNaught. Every Breath You Take On wealthy philanthropist Cecil Wyatt's eightieth birthday, all the money in the world won't bring back his missing grandson, William Wyatt. The family, the police and the media all have tried in vain to discover the young man's fate. Now suspicion has turned shockingly toward William's own half-brother, the rather distant and enigmatic Mitchell Wyatt. Kate Donovan is tagged as a suspect in a high-society murder case, after a chance romantic encounter on a tropical island paradise with Mitchell Wyatt.	3
5		Sue Grafton. S Is for Silence In Kinsey Millhone's 19th excursion into the world of suspense and misadventure, a daughter wants the solace of closure in the mystery surrounding her mother's absence. Thirty-four years earlier, Violet Sullivan put on her party finery and left for the Fourth of July fireworks display. She was never seen again.	5
6		James Patterson. Mary, Mary Alex Cross travels to Los Angeles to hunt for a killer more brutal and ambitious than he's ever encountered--a woman who has it in for Hollywood's hottest players. Is this the plan of an obsessed fan or a spurned actor, or is it part of something much more frightening?	6
7		Greg Iles. Turning Angel Iles brings the secrets of the South alive in this vibrant novel of infatuation, murder, and sexual intrigue set in his hometown of Natchez, Mississippi.	9
8		Nicholas Sparks. At First Sight Jeremy Marsh is now living in Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, and awaiting the birth of their daughter. But, just as when things a looking goods, an unsettling and mysterious message brings trouble from the past.	7
9		Jayne Ann Krentz. All Night Long When Irene Stenson is summoned to her hometown 17 years after the murder-suicide of her parents, her reporter's instinct, her hunger to know the truth, and a compelling ex-Marine lead her to risk far more than local gossip to sort out what happened to the best friend who summoned her--and what really happened the night her parents died.	4
10		Anne Rice. Christ the Lord Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Ricegives us now her most thoughtful and powerful book, a novel about the childhood of Christ the Lord based on the gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship. The book's power derives from the passion its author brings to the writing, and the way in which she summons up the voice, the presence, the words of the young Jesus who tells the story.	11
11		Iris Johansen. On the Run For eight years, single mother Grace Archer has lived a picture-perfect life raising her daughter on a horse farm. When the ghosts of Grace's past violently shatter her peace, she must resume an identity she thought cast off forever, joining forces with a man she thought she'd never see again.	13
12		Patricia Cornwell. Predator Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, takes charge of a case that stretches from steamy Florida to snowboundBoston, one as unnerving as any she has ever faced. The teasing psychological clues lead Scarpetta and her team-Pete Marino, Benton Wesley, and Lucy Farinelli-to suspect that they are hunting someone with a cunning and malevolent mind whose secrets have kept them in the shadows, until now. Predator is proof once again that Patricia Cornwell has few peers with her extraordinary ability to entertain and enthrall.	12
13		David Baldacci. The Camel Club The Camel Club is a four-man group of Washington, D.C. misfits, that meet weekly to discuss political conspiracies they believe exist and what actions they might take. One night club members witness the murder of Secret Service employee Patrick Johnson, thus thrusting the wacky crew into the middle of a bigger conspiracy than they could ever have imagined.	15
14		C.S. Lewis. The Chronicles of Narnia Journeys to the end of the world, fantastic creatures and epic battles between good and evil -- the book that has it all is The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, written in 1949 by C. S. Lewis. But Lewis did not stop there. Six more books followed, and together they became known as The Chronicles of Narnia.	-
15		Barbara Taylor Bradford. Just Rewards In this sweeping novel, the Harte women find themselves in the midst of weddings, in the hold of intrigue, and at the crossroads of the old ways and the new. The bestselling author presents the dramatic conclusion of the extraordinary tale of Emma Harte's great-granddaughters.	New