"No financial thrillers for me, either," she said.

Now, financial thrillers are enjoying a bit of a boom.

Here's a fairly new category: the international financial thriller from Japan.

Linda Davies is a British author of financial thrillers.

In the wake of the late-2000s financial crisis, some financial thrillers took on educational roles.

This is also a financial thriller that takes place in London.

In commercial fiction, the current hot subjects are financial thrillers and books on viruses and dinosaurs.

IT is surprising that even more financial thrillers have not been written.

Like the cold war melodramas that began to appear in the 1960's, the financial thrillers seem to have cut a fresh genre from the headlines.

But until then, the bright publisher-hyped moment of the "financial thriller" seems undeniable, ascendant.