72 Mysteries by Mood: From Historical to Deep Space - Page 2

Veteran book nerds will be familiar with this dilemma: You're in the mood for a certain kind of book, but traditional genre and subgenre labels just don't cut it. You need a more specific kind of sorting technique.

Well, Goodreads editorial team is here to help, and they submit that the operative term is mood. The collection below takes a kind of hybrid approach to sorting, mixing subgenre and cross-genre strategies to generate four broad categories for your next mystery novel.

Perhaps you're in the mood for immersion in a different time and place. Paris, circa 1953, say. Or maybe you're hankering for a light kind of rom-com mystery with an appreciation for puns. How about a weird fiction murder mystery set in the liminal psychic spaces between Raymond Chandler and Franz Kafka?