{"id":1896,"date":"2014-04-24T06:19:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T10:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2014-05-05T06:22:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T10:22:57","slug":"best-mysteries-and-thrillers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=1896","title":{"rendered":"Best Mysteries and Thrillers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How many of the \u201cbest\u201d in mysteries and thrillers have you read? I\u2019ve read about 30 of the Amazon 100 best<\/a> list, though if I could count the movie versions the number would rise to about 42. No double-counting for both reading From Russia with Love<\/em> and falling for Sean Connery. Especially note how the cover for Mary Roberts Rinehart\u2019s The Circular Staircase<\/em> could be mistaken for a “Carolyn Keene,” represented in the Amazon list by The Secret of the Old Clock<\/em>, my very first Nancy Drew.<\/p>\n

The compilers seemed to go for the first in a series, like the first Jason Bourne or the first Inspector Gamache, perhaps thinking that a strong beginning will lead people to subsequent books in the series.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve read the statistics about how Americans are reading fewer books. But they still love mysteries and thrillers. Some people are drawn to reading because they can identify with the characters and others because of \u201cthat excitement of trying to discover that unknown world,\u201d said author Azar Nafisi. That might be a foreign country, a foreign planet, a foreign psyche. Mystery and thriller readers get both. A protagonist they can identify with and a journey through that foreign world (of crime, of spies).<\/p>\n

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