Culinary Mysteries: Stories of delicious food and murder! These cozy mysteries often include recipes that tie in to the story and are often solved by amateur sleuths with ties to the food industry (caterers, bakers and the like). Expect graphic details about the meals, not the murders in these gossipy tomes
http://www.mysteryloverskitchen.com/ is a website that ties recipes and books together run by food-savvy mystery writers. Most of the recipes are comfort food favorites and decadent treats, lots of cupcakes even a savory lasagna one, while health foods are largely ignored.
Popular Authors: Joanne Fluke, Peter King, Diane Mott Davidson
Urban Fiction Hip Hop: Often fast-paced and character-driven, these books also rely on an urban setting to set the atmosphere. Usually centered around rappers, video vixens, or others in the hip hop music industry
http://www.streetfiction.org/ offers reviews of new releases and allows you to search by category or topic such as "family" or "pimps". There's a lot of crossover books mentioned to appeal to teens or fans of paranormal stories in addition to more serious topics such as suicide, gangs and homelessness
Popular Authors: Wahida Clark, Noire, Zane
Beach Reads: These can be fast-paced and action-packed or leisurely paced books that are typically lighter reads that aren't too complex to get into.
http://booksforthebeach.blogspot.com/ seems historical fiction is still a popular beach-reading genre along with the usual chick-lit and anything else that engrosses the reader into the book's plot.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/beach-reads is Huff post's compilation of all their beach reading lists from dark thrillers to lighter page-turners
Popular Authors: Janet Evanovich, James Patterson, Nora Roberts
Mashups: The cursed blends paranormal romance with fast-paced action in the battle of good vs. evil
11 22 63 by Stephen King is a mash-up thriller that is in the alternate history subgenre of science fiction as a man travels back in time to prevent Kennedy's assassination. The rich details of true events make it read like a historical fiction and the race against time makes this a thrilling read
A good site to find book bloggers is:
http://bookbloggerdirectory.wordpress.com/fiction-blogs/paranormal-romance-urban-fantasy/pnruf-book-blogs-n-z/
and for crime genre suggestions, check out:
http://www.historyofthemystery.com/index.php?page=30
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