I’m hoping THE BLACK HOUR will be stored in the mystery sections of bookstores and libraries, but as for what I call it, I’ve adopted “crime fiction.” It seems the most broadly defined. Here’s another marketing term: discoverability. With so many books being published, helping readers find your book is a real hurdle. I get why we need them-they’re in service of helping readers find the books they’ll like. The greatest mystery in mystery writing is where the lines occur between marketing terms. I’ve heard “psychological suspense” a couple of times. THE BLACK HOUR straddles two genre categories, psychological thriller and crime fiction. I recently talked to Lori Rader-Day about her riveting debut novel, THE BLACK HOUR. And then there is the haunting question in your own head: Why? Why did that young man shoot me? But what if your colleagues assume you are somehow to blame, that the true motivation for the attack was something you had done? One of the cruelest injuries of the attack is the callous blackening of your name by vicious gossip. Somehow you survive the attack and manage to pull through months of surgeries and rehab and return to your job. And imagine that your assailant promptly turns the gun on himself, depriving you of any chance of knowing why he did it. Imagine being shot at point-blank range in a darkened hallway by someone you’ve never met.
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