Mysteries and thrillers…

Many of us love them, but the modern versions have changed a lot.

First, as genres categorizing stories, they’re too general.  Add “psychological” or “legal” to each one and you’ll have too common subgenres. Add “romantic” to each one and you’ll have two more. Second, they’ve become more violent and sexy, the latter now including LGBTQ themes and S&M, so much so that Victorian readers would be shocked. That just means that they’ve kept pace with changing times, of course, and become more real...