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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Indeed, I often wondered why the Sookie books and similar are shelved under mysteries at my library and Randy Wayne White and Harlen Coben are under general fiction. The ways of librarians are strange and mysterious at times 
Ebooks are wonderful because we can pick and chose more easily what we want to read. Me, I try not to read too many in a series in a row, no matter how much I love them I get bored when I do.
I think that punctuation does not bother me as much as excessive sex or obscenity or derogatory writing. High swearing tolerance, but too old to care about the sex Couldn't do Chuck Palanuik at all as all the derogatory remarks depressed me.
It is a bit bizarre that I managed to read 3 books pretty close together though and not consciously notice the lack of quotes, but probably a good thing not to be irritated by it.
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I think the publishers generally submit the genre (look in the front of a paperback and you'll sometimes see the library filing) but in the case of Harris, she was known as a mystery writer long before she wrote Sookie. She had a cozy series and another series that wasn't quite cozy. I really liked the one series. Her cozy was a bit too cozy for me, but the other one, Lily Bard, I really enjoyed. The Sookie was good for a book but not so much after that and I LOATHED the graveyard book/series. That was far too creepy the way she wrote the whole brother/sister thing even after it was "cleared" up.
Hitch, I completely agree with your points.