Word Count for Mystery & Thrillers Sharp Objectsby Gillian Flynn80,565 The Surgeonby Tess Gerritsen98,039 The Girl on the Trainby Paula Hawkins101,704 View all genres and ranges Word Count for Debut Novels Fight
but since it is safe to assume that a Millicent employed by an agency that represents a lot of, say, thrillers will be staring at queries and submissions for thrillers for a hefty chunk of any given workday, the last response a thriller-mongering querier or submitter should want to elicit ...
Shorter novels are easier to sell.If you want toget a literary agent, or a traditional publisher, you’ll have an easier time as a début novelist with a short novel. This is for the simple reason that readers – and therefore publishers and agents – are less likely totake a punt on[...
These bestsellers ranged in a similar word count to contemporary fiction: roughly 50% of the novels contained 87,000 to 105,000 words. How many words are in a suspense, thriller, or mystery novel? The average best-selling mystery, thriller, or suspense novel is a slightly shorter 91,000 ...
General fiction novel (mystery, thriller, crime, historical, etc.) As you can probably guess by now, books come in such a wide variety of lengths, that it is hard to generalize on words in a novel. The minimum word count for a novel is 40,000 words, although some people in the indu...
Not merely because his story sounds, somewhat unusually for thriller descriptions in queries, actually thrilling, but also because it is a query addressed to a US-based agent. In this case, my fictional Hawkeye McAgentson, Millicent’s hard-nosed employer. Why did spotting...
The Pleasure Merchant— A novel of despair and desire, equal parts psychological thriller and sensual parlor drama. When apprentice wig-maker Tom Dawne’s greatest creation is used as part of a revenge scheme against a powerful gentleman, he is dismissed by his embarrassed master and forced to...
A very French thriller about two women, a man’s wife and his mistress, conspiring to murder the man. Remarkable filmmaking craft, engaging story, never boring for something that many might consider ‘art house.’ Stream on The Criterion Channel. ...
All of Elizabeth’s novels have been translated into multiple languages and have been international bestsellers. Two Destinies, the final novel in The Secrets of the Cross trilogy, was a finalist for the 2013 Christy Award. The Long Highway Home was a finalist for the 2018 Carol Award. The...
D.Thriller. 答案:C 解析:推理推断题。从对第三部电影的介绍看,这是一个浪漫的爱情故事,因此选 C 项。 23.Tom is a student majoring in astronomy.He may most probably want to see . A.ATaleofTwoCities B.TheVillage C.LondonLoveStory D.TheMenWhoCamefromMars 答案:D 解析:推理推断题。汤姆是天文...