This document compares the popularity of various bestselling authors of mystery and thriller novels. It groups the authors into categories like thrillers, novels about vampires, and mystery/crime novels. It also analyzes the relative popularity of authors like Stephen King, Dan Brown, Laurell Hamilton, and Wilbur Smith in different countries. Horror/vampire novels seem most popular in Hungary, mystery novels in Poland, and both genres in Italy, which has many fans of those types of stories.

1. Popularity of world's bestselling authors Most known authors of mystery novels and thrillers

2. Our Heroes Stephen King Dan Brown Rex Stout Harlan Coben Wilbur Smith James Rollins Stephanie Meyer Laurell Hamilton Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child Jean-Christophe Grangé

3. At first, let’s compare the Giants - Stephen King and Dan Brown. Just recall that Dan Brown has written six books, but Stephen King - more than fifty ...

4. Dan Brown andStephen King They have about the same level of popularity. The peaks of the popularity Dan Brown coincide with the time of release movies on its books

5. Let's see how much Dan Brown took off on the rest

6. Dan Brown, Wilbur Smith, Harlan Coben, Laurell Hamilton,Douglas Preston Dan Brown is in front of rest with enormous breakdown. In the second line (among «rest») leads Laurell Hamilton.

7. Now we group authors according their genres

8. ThrillersDouglas Preston, Lincoln Child, James Rollins, Wilbur Smith

9. Novels about vampiresLaurell HamiltonandStephanie Meyer

10. Mystery and crime novelsRex StoutandHarlan Coben

11. Now let's see how popular these authors in different countries

12. Stephen King

13. Dan Brown

14. Laurell Hamilton

15. Wilbur Smith

16. Stephanie Meyer

17. Harlan Coben

18. Rex Stout

19. Duglas PrestonandLincoln Child

20. James Rollins

21. Jean-Christophe Grangé

22. It seems that horror and vampire novels are more popular in Hungary, the mystery novels – in Poland, and both - in Italy, which generally populated by fans these genres.