Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Trends (March 13, 2022)

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Week in Summary

This week there were 36 new books in the Top 100.View them on Amazon.

The median (50th-ranked) book was at Best Sellers Rank 186, decreased between 5 and 10% from last week. Half the books in the Top 100 were between ranks 82 and 307.

  • There were 59 standalone books, and 41 books which were in 37 unique series.
  • There were 66 books in KU, and 34 wide.
  • There were 45 books published by an imprint of a major traditional publisher, and 55 books estimated to be independent or self-published.

Trending topic tags this week were Office/Workplace(7), Police(-6), Thriller(5) and Military(5).See the whole list of topics.

Frequent words in titles this week were gripping(4), last(4), lovers(4) and psychological(3). See the whole list.

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Sales Rank Distribution


Covers


Frequent words in blurbs this week were new(53), life(45), year(41) and secret(31). See the whole list.

Blurbs had a median of 16 sentences across 6 paragraphs. Text analysis of the blurbs in the Top 100 suggests:

  • 78 were written in third-person
  • 20 were written in first-person
  • 0 of the first-person blurbs had more than one point of view

Setting vs Character in Blurbs

In this plot, each dot is a blurb. The percentages show how much of each blurb is about characters, and how much is about setting and events. Neither is better than the other, but this plot shows us whether blurbs in the Top 100 are mostly about one or the other, or a mixture.