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Rachel Abbott's The Murder Game (Headline) has zipped straight to the top of the Publisher E-Book Ranking in its first week on sale, defeating Headline stablemate Dean Koontz's The Eyes of Darkness after three weeks at number one.
Previously, Abbott's And So It Begins spent five weeks in the e-book chart in October 2018, but peaked in second place, making The Murder Game her first title to score the top spot. The ranking covers the week to 11th April.
Delia Owens' Where the Crawdads Sing (Little, Brown) leapt up the chart to join it in second place. Jodi Taylor's Plan for the Worst (Headline) debuted in third to make an all-Hachette top three. Meanwhile the 11th title in Taylor's time-bending The Chronicles of St Mary's series becomes her third book to hit the Publisher E-Book Ranking, following on from Hope for the Best in spring 2019 and Doing Time in October.
Beth O'Leary's The Flatshare (Quercus), currently riding high in the Bookstat e-book charts, is priced at 99p and is therefore ineligible for the Publisher E-Book Ranking. However, the author's second title The Switch burst into the chart the same week it hit the Original Fiction top 20 in hardback, charting eighth.