Karin Slaughter's 'Criminal' a Hot Read This Summer

Criminal by Karin Slaughter is the number 1 read among adults at the St. Louis-area independent bookstores for the week ending July 22.

The bookstores include  in University City, Left Bank Books in the Central West End,  in St. Charles and  in Webster Groves.

Adults

1. Criminal by Karin Slaughter
2. Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
3. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
4. Wild: From Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed
5. Fifty Shades Darker by EL James
6. Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
7. Bloodline by James Rollins
8. The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach
9. A New Kind of Christianity by Brian McLaren
10. Fallen by Karin Slaughter

Children/Young Adult

1. The Last Guardian: Artemis Fowl #8 by Eoin Colfer
2. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
3. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
4. Count to Sleep St Louis by Adam Gamble
5. Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin
6. Wreck This Journal by Keri Smith
7. Oceanology: The True Account of the Voyage of the Nautilus by Zoticus De Lesseps
8. Dead End in Norvelt by Jack Gantos
9. Hubble Bubble Granny Trouble by Tracey Corderoy
10. Artemis Fowl: Artemis Fowl #1 by Eoin Colfer