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Originally Posted by JSWolf

The following sums up very well what the differences are and how these really should not have been combined.

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/is-y...r-or-suspense/

Originally Posted by bfisher

Lots of good crime fiction - for example, Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty), George V. Higgins (The Friends of Eddie Coyle)

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

Political thriller like something Tom Clancy would write might fit outside those two. While you could file it under Mystery it's pacing and tension elevate it to something that is more than Mystery and not Horror.

There you go bringing up the one category that I voted for that I didn't particular like the grouping of. For me, Mystery/Crime and Thriller would have been the two categories. Suspense is just confusing the issue and Thriller and Crime are two different beasts. I wonder if the



My take: Crime is a sub of Mystery, focusing on the criminal investigation.

Thriller/Suspense have a certain pacing to them that heightens our anxiety and tension, but Suspense isn't really a genre for me.

Horror is its own thing. It is designed to scare. While mysteries and thrillers can scare us, horror tends to try to make us nauseated to boot.

And take all of this with a grain of salt because I have been known in the past to not read much mystery and to not be impressed by it when I have read it. I think I should like it, but I keep trying.

Thank you all so much! I wish I had asked before voting, because I would have chosen both categories. I actually like spy movies (but haven't really read much) and I tend to label them as mystery, or mystery with action, so my inclination was to suggest that they all be placed as one mega category.