Clean,Non Religious-Reads discussion

Hey everyone,I love thrillers of most genres, medical,archaeological,political,adventure.
Richard Preston and Robin Cook are my favorite medical thriller authors,also love Dan Brown's work.Some of Mary Higgins Clark.

Not into "True Crime", or stalkers,serial killers,kidnapping,torture or abuse/harm to a child.

Does anyone have any suggestions for PG/PG13,especially PG for language and no graphic sex?PG13 violence ok.

This is a dumb question, but what is the difference between a mystery and a thriller? I guess if I think about it I can probably figure it out, but what do all y'all think?

Actually Becky,I think that is a great question.I think this explanation I found describes the difference very well.What do others think?

http://www.mysterynet.com/books/testi...

That is excellent! And especially to me as a writer of what I hope will be a good mystery/suspense novel. And, of course, now I'm not sure which category it fits into. I had heard at a writers' panel I went to that Whodunits start with a murder either having just occurred at the beginning of the book or very soon after that. In my book the murder doesn't occur until more like a quarter of the way through? And, of course, now I can't quite remember. ANYWAY, for that reason alone, I think mine might fall into the suspense category. Though there are a few murders and the protagonist is involved in sleuthing somewhat (almost by accident) and there is a police detective as well. And now I'm rambling so I'll just sign off.

But, thanks for the great definition!

I meant to add that there are also sub-genres in mysteries (according to a panel I heard): cozy cottage mysteries (cozies) and something else and I can't remember the name! And I think the difference in those is that in a cozy the sleuth is never in real danger? Or something like that. Like Miss Marple, I think. I'm going to have to go listen to that panel again (on a podcast) and remind myself.

Plus not all mysteries have murder, as the 16-book Miss Julia cozy mysteries don't feature murder, and there are so many different genres that thrillers fit into, medical, sci-fi, political, horror, ect.

I am listening to Ellie Jordan, Ghost Trapper and so far (almost halfway through) it has been clean. I am enjoying the suspense and creep factor.

Great to hear Desiree, I have that one on my Kindle.

Have you try John Grishsam books.

I think I misspelled the last name but some of his title or The Whistler or Rogue Lawyer. He is Pg or a little bit Pg 13.