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A J Waines’ 2013 book, Girl on a Train, has been seeing a huge spike in book sales over the past year. The thriller about a journalist investigating a suicide has benefited from having a similar title to Paula Hawkin’s bestseller, “The Girl on the Train.”

It turns out that many people have simply purchased the wrong book. The Amazon reviews for Waines’s 2013 book reveal dozens of reviews from people who claim to have bought the wrong book. “Not THAT “Girl on the Train” OMG I read the wrong book,” wrote B. Sabiston in a review.

“I bought this book thinking it was ‘The Girl on the Train,'” wrote On the Go. “To my surprise there are two books written with almost the same title. I enjoyed Girl on a Train. I started to read Girl on the Train and couldn’t finish it–I didn’t like the storyline at all. It was a happy accident for me.”

According to The Wall Street Journal, Waines’ book has sold around 30,000 copies, not the 6.5 million copies that Hawkins has sold, but impressive nonetheless. “I’m making more money than I ever have before,” she told WSJ.

Paula Hawkins‘ thriller The Girl on the Train has broken Dan Brown‘s sales record for The Lost Symbol.

The novel about a commuter who gets entrenched into the lives of people she spies on from a train has been the No. 1 bestseller on Nielsen BookScan’s hardback fiction charts for the 20th week in a row, the longest stretch since the book sales monitor’s records began.

The Guardian has more:

Hawkins’ novel sold 7,280 copies last week, to keep its top position in original fiction, almost double the second-placed Pretty Girls, by Karin Slaughter. Publisher Transworld said that it has sold more than 800,000 copies since The Girl on the Train was published in January.

Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl On The Train Tell us about your latest creation: The Girl on the Train is psychological thriller which examines the fine line between normality and the loss of control wrought by addiction. It’s all about how when you peel back the veneer of everyday life, you can find something really quite disturbing just underneath… […]