![]() ![]() They enjoy traveling along with the hero and heroine (or the main characters if it is a same sex love story) to experience the emotion of falling in love. Romance readers expect interpersonal conflict in the story. ![]() Let’s examine the genres of romance and mystery in more depth. Full length books invariably contain supportive subplots, such as a secondary mystery or a secondary character romance, which further cloud the “what is it” book genre. To answer that question, we must put on our editorial hats and determine the driving force of the book, the romance or the mystery. What’s the difference between a romantic suspense and a mystery with romance? Is there a solid black line separating the two kinds of books? An established genre already exists within the romance world for books which combine elements of suspense and danger with romance – romantic suspense. Maybe, or maybe not, depending on the amount of romance added. Authors stretch the mystery genre to make it their own by adding elements such as arts and crafts, animals, ghosts, music, vampires, and busy-bodies, to name a few.īut what happens when an author blends a hearty dose of romance into the mystery world? Does that change the classification of the book for editors and bookstore placement? There are thrillers, cozies, police procedurals with hard-boiled detectives, paranormals, and more. The realm of mysteries has clearly defined categories. This article first appeared in the October 2010 edition of First Draft, the newsletter for the Guppy chapter of Sisters In Crime. ![]()
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