Based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending March 11, 2012.

1. Death Comes to Pemberley
P.D. James, Knopf, $25.95, 9780307959850

2. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $15.95, 9780307949493

3. Believing the Lie
Elizabeth George, Dutton, $28.95, 9780525952589

4. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307742537

5. The Girl Who Played With Fire
Stieg Larsson, Vintage, $9.99, 9780307949509

6. Started Early, Took My Dog
Kate Atkinson, Reagan Arthur, $14.99, 9780316066747

7. Sister
Rosamund Lupton, Broadway, $14, 9780307716521

8. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
Alan Bradley, Bantam, $15, 9780385343497

9. The Sentry
Robert Crais, Berkley, $9.99, 9780425245729

10. The Rope
Nevada Barr, Minotaur, $25.99, 9780312614577

11. The Drop
Michael Connelly, Little Brown, $27.99, 9780316069410

12. The Sherlockian
Graham Moore, Twelve, $14.99, 9780446572583

13. Smokin’ Seventeen
Janet Evanovich, Bantam, $8.99, 9780345527707

14. Explosive Eighteen
Janet Evanovich, Bantam, $28, 9780345527714

15. Nemesis
Jo Nesbø, Harper, $14.99, 9780061655517

16. 10th Anniversary
James Patterson, Maxine Paetro, Grand Central, $14.99, 9780446585163

17. The Devil’s Star
Jo Nesbø, Harper, $14.99, 9780061133985

18. One for the Money
Janet Evanovich, St. Martin’s, $8.99, 9780312990459

19. V Is for Vengeance
Sue Grafton, Marian Wood Books/Putnam, $27.95, 9780399157868

20. Two for the Dough
Janet Evanovich, St. Martin’s, $8.99, 9780312948962

21. The Hypnotist
Lars Kepler, Picador, $16, 9781250007582

22. Maisie Dobbs
Jacqueline Winspear, Penguin, $15, 9780142004333

23. Red Mist
Patricia Cornwell, Putnam, $27.95, 9780399158025

24. Crunch Time
Diane Mott Davidson, Avon, $7.99, 9780061348167

25. Bury Your Dead
Louise Penny, Minotaur, $14.99, 9780312626907