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Originally Posted by library addict
Romantic Suspense used to be a Silhouette line. It was originally called Intimate Moments and covered a wide range of topics. I think it was THE best category line in the late 80s through 90s. I loved the variety and they had such a great line-up of authors.
The main difference now I think it the Intrique line concentrates more on the actual mystery/suspense part of the story and Romantic Suspense is more about the romance. Romantic Suspense also tends to have more international set stories with spies and intelligence agents. Whereas more Intrique are set only in the US or Canada. But that perception may just be based on the authors I read, not an actual rule.
Police (detectives, cops, etc) seem pretty evenly divided between them. Plus, since Harlequin bumped the wordcount back up, the Romantic Suspense stories are longer. Intrigues are around 55,000-60,000 whereas Romantic Suspense is 70,000-75,000.
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Thanks for the description, very helpful. So it sounds like I'd probably lean more towards the Romantic Suspense line.
I checked my library and have a ton of Intrigue titles from the once in a life time $0.05 sale, several of which I've actually read, and only 3 Suspense titles. I will have to investigate the RS line further.
I know I've very much enjoyed the last several titles I've read form the SuperRomance line so maybe I'd like the higher word count of the RS line as well.