Mystery, Thriller, Suspense & Crime lane score: opportunity 70/100 (rank 1 of 51), greenlight band Strong-buy, 12,395 reader demand signals in 30 days. Free, live, no sign-up.
| Component | Percentile in this lane |
|---|---|
| Reader demand | 98th |
| Revenue | 94th |
| Scarcity (how little is published against that demand) | 2nd |
| Momentum | 76th |
Counted across 2,612 titles in this lane — 70% sit at steamy or hotter.
| Heat level | Share of the lane |
|---|---|
| dark | 41% |
| sweet | 30% |
| spicy | 15% |
| explicit | 7% |
| steamy | 7% |
| Median Kindle length | 304 pages |
| Median length, all formats | 322 pages |
| Recent releases | 266 pages |
| Novella-length share, recent | 0% |
| Dominant series shape | Standalone |
Counted — not estimated — from the Tropesmith corpus, and recounted as the corpus grows: 4,243,908 Goodreads reviews, 3,173,892 shelf signals, 2,585,510 parsed reader demand signals and 134,324 BookTok videos, across 114,018 trope-tagged titles and 5,093 distinct tropes in 145 demand lanes. The raw response for this lane is available as JSON.
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