Ranking books is inherently, incredibly subjective. The task we set ourselves was, at the outset, more or less impossible. Four, crime and mystery books are increasingly global, activist, female, diverse, and hard to pigeonhole into any particular subgenre.īefore you you dive into the book selections, a few notes on the process. Three, traditional mysteries are back-and they’re being read by millennials. Two, there are fewer cops and pros solving crimes, and more amateurs and Hitchcock-style every-people thrust into investigations of everyday mysteries. One, the remarkable rise of the psychological thriller heralds a shift from “stranger danger” thrillers to acknowledging that harm often lurks at home (or at work). Some trends surfaced as we made our choices, and they’re worth noting.
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