Phillip Margolin's eighth bestseller, The Associate, is following the same path as his previous seven—right onto the national bestseller charts, landing today in our #11 spot. It's his second book for HarperCollins, which reports 128,000 copies after two printings. Avon's mass market edition of Wild Justice marks its fourth week on our list, with 800,000 copies in print after four trips to press. Among Margolin's stops on his current 12-city tour are NEBA, the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville and the Northwest Bookfest in Seattle.

With reporting by Dick Donahue