New mysteries took the top spots on the French and Swedish fiction lists in July. Popular crime novelist Fred Vargas is back with An Uncertain Location, which debuted at #1 in France. Vargas has had several U.S. publishers, with Penguin doing her most recent titles, including This Night's Foul Work, which came out in June. Camilla Lackberg is another thriller writer with a string of hits in her native country; her newest work, The Mermaid, landed in the top spot in Sweden last month. Henning Mankell is a Swedish bestseller who already has a following in America, and his The Chinese was in second place in July. Vintage published Mankell's The Man Who Smiled last year, while the New Press plans to release The Pyramid: And Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries in hardcover next month.

While there was no movement among the top fiction bestsellers in Spain in July, there were plenty of changes further down. Stieg Larsson's international hit The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo made another country's top 10 list, landing at #4 in Spain. (In France, Larsson's titles were in the third, fourth and fifth slots.) In fifth place was another title that has hit other international bestsellers list, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, which is set for release in the U.S. Sept. 2 from Europa Editions.

For week ending July 24, used by arrangement with Livres Hebdo/Ipsos
France
Fiction Nonfiction
1 An Uncertain LocationFred Vargas Viviane Hamy Holiday Notebook for Grownups, 17 to 117 Chiflet et Cie
2 All Those Things That We Never SaidMarc Levy R. Laffont Passport for Grownups-- Hachette Education
3 The Girl with the Dragon TattooStieg Larsson Actes Sud Flower SkinEmmanuel Petit Prolongations

For week ending July 24, used by arrangement with Svensk Bokhandel
Sweden
Fiction Nonfiction
1 The MermaidCamilla Lackberg Forum A Piece of CakeLeila Lindholm Natur & Kultur
2 The ChineseHenning Mankell Leopard So Stupid!Mia Tornblom Forum
3 Never Fuck UpJens Lapidus Wahlstrom & Widstrand If You Don't Clean Up Your Mess You're DeadDavid Batra Frank

For week ending July 24, used by arrangement with El Cultural
Spain
Fiction Nonfiction
1 The Angel's GameCarlos Ruiz Zafon Planeta The SecretRhonda Byrne Urano
2 The Boy in the Striped PajamasJohn Boyne Salamandra The Negative ThoughtRisto Mejide Espasa
3 Pel's Amazing Trip to PomponioEduardo Mendoza Seix Barral Why We Cannot Be ChristiansPiergiorgio Odifreddi RBA