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This is our new Reader's Page. Please explore, enjoy, and suggest new features! This page is intended to serve the Sisters in Crime reader in all of us. After all, without you, the writers have no audience for their work! Check back for regular updates and book discussions and events for both local and global reading fans.
Mystery Subgenres
Mysteries come in many varieties. Most of us have already seen it just browsing the local bookstore or library. That broad category, “Mystery,” can be divided into subgenres based on the type of crime and how it is solved. Here are some of the main subgenres waiting for you to discover.
Top 100 Mysteries and Thrillers
TIME Magazine recently put together a panel of celebrated authors—Megan Abbott, Harlan Coben, S.A. Cosby, Gillian Flynn, Tana French, Rachel Howzell Hall, and Sujata Massey—to present “the most gripping, twist-filled, satisfying, and influential mystery and thriller books.” We'll feature a few of these every month for you.
A Reader's Links
Here are some useful local links for readers: the library system and nearby bookstores. Check them out!
Book of the Month
Check out this page once a month to see which novel we've chosen to be our Book of the Month!
Top 100 Mysteries and Thrillers
TIME Magazine recently put together a panel of celebrated authors—Megan Abbott, Harlan Coben, S.A. Cosby, Gillian Flynn, Tana French, Rachel Howzell Hall, and Sujata Massey—to present “the most gripping, twist-filled, satisfying, and influential mystery and thriller books.” We’ll feature a few of these every month for you.
The Ice Princess, first published in Swedish in 2003, was translated into English in 2008 by Stephen T. Murray. “Hailed as Sweden’s “queen of crime,” Läckberg has been published in more than 60 countries and sold more than 29 million copies of her books worldwide.”
“Winner of the 2003 Black Caucus American Library Association’s First Novelist Award, The Emperor of Ocean Park offers a nuanced consideration of the complexities of power, race, class, and politics in America.” Carter’s debut novel was the first-ever pick for the Today Show book club and spent 11 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list.
The Surgeon is the first novel in the popular Rizzoli and Isles series by doctor-turned-author Tess Gerritsen. There’s also a TNT series from the same books. “The Surgeon” in the novel is a serial killer who is after the only woman to escape.
This Victorian-era historical mystery is “filled to the brim with twists and turns, intricacies and intimacies.” Fingersmith has spawned multiple stage and screen adaptations and South Korean director Park Chan-wook’s film adaptation The Handmaiden premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
Mystery Subgenres
There are roughly 15 basic subgenres in the Mystery category of fiction. Are you familiar with all of them? Do you have a favorite?
Click the button to explore more mystery subgenres.
Local Links for Readers
2nd and Charles (Greenville)
Angel’s Bookshoppe (Greenville)
As the Page Turns (Travelers Rest)
Barnes and Noble (chain)
Fiction Addiction (Greenville)
Hub City Bookshop (Spartanburg)
M. Judson Books (Greenville)
Mr. K’s Used Books (Greenville)
Pages on Pine (Spartanburg)
Book of the Month
The Book of the Month for March is:
The God of the Woods
by Liz Moore
Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found. As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet
Liz Moore is the author of five novels: The Words of Every Song, Heft, The Unseen World, the New York Times-bestselling Long Bright River, and The God of the Woods. A winner of the 2014 Rome Prize in Literature, she lives in Philadelphia and teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing at Temple University.
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