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FROM: "Laura Salmon" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 12/8/00, 11:58 AM

Hi!

I am putting together some readers advisory materials and had a question. I
am trying to find out what differentiates suspense novels from thrillers. I
have checked various sources on the internet and in print and am having a
hard time defining a difference. I would appreciate some opinions or
"standards" from some of you (who have more experience with this type of
thing.) I am a one person operation in this project.


Thank you so much!!

Laura Salmon
Public Service Asst. (and Librarian to be)
Akron Summit County Public Library
Mobile Services Division
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FROM: Viccy Kemp <[removed]@ci.carrollton.tx.us>
REC'D: 12/8/00, 12:16 PM

Most of our series featuring a single detective (PI, police, amateur, etc.)
solving a crime where the solution is unknown at the beginning go into
mystery.
Everything else goes into fiction: legal thrillers (John Grisham, Scott
Turow, etc.); espionage (John LeCarre, Robert Ludlum, etc.); psychology
thrillers (Minette Walters).
HTH
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laura Salmon [[removed]@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 11:52 AM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: suspense v. thriller
>
> Hi!
>
> I am putting together some readers advisory materials and had a question.
> I
> am trying to find out what differentiates suspense novels from thrillers.
> I
> have checked various sources on the internet and in print and am having a
> hard time defining a difference. I would appreciate some opinions or
> "standards" from some of you (who have more experience with this type of
> thing.) I am a one person operation in this project.
>
>
> Thank you so much!!
>
> Laura Salmon
> Public Service Asst. (and Librarian to be)
> Akron Summit County Public Library
> Mobile Services Division
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 12/8/00, 1:29 PM

>From: "Laura Salmon" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: suspense v. thriller
>Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 12:51:36 -0500
>
>Hi!
>
>I am putting together some readers advisory materials and had a question.
>I
>am trying to find out what differentiates suspense novels from thrillers.
>I
>have checked various sources on the internet and in print and am having a
>hard time defining a difference. I would appreciate some opinions or
>"standards" from some of you (who have more experience with this type of
>thing.) I am a one person operation in this project.
>
>
>Thank you so much!!
>
>Laura Salmon
>Public Service Asst. (and Librarian to be)
>Akron Summit County Public Library
>Mobile Services Division

I think we recently covered this subject, Laura. Check the archives for
October and November, I'm sure I recall a very good discourse by one of our
members on exactly this distinction.

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