If you are looking for a writing niche for a sure fire best seller, then look no further than the suspense novel genre. Publishers are always looking for new suspense fiction books.

One of the greatest things about suspense thrillers is that just about any subject will do just fine. You can write about any topic you know about. In fact, the best books are very often about people who are nobody special. They are not secret agents or detectives, just everyday people that get caught in a web of suspense.

Think about some of the best selling suspense novels of the past decade or so. The protagonists have often been the most unlikely people. One of the best selling books of the past decade was about an academic who got caught up in a two thousand year old coverup of the marriage of Jesus. Do we need to reveal the title? We do not need to, because this novel became the most widely discussed book of the first years of the twenty-first century.

Or look at the books written by a woman who is seriously interested in reincarnation and after death experiences. These are normally considered subjects that only a narrow readership would be interested in, but her books are consistent bestsellers. That is because she writes suspense books about characters the average reader can relate to and she creates edge of the seat plots.

One of the most suspenseful novels of the late twentieth century was written primarily about the chemical makeup of perfume! The writer of the book made the subject fascinating because it was the key to understanding his main character, who happened to be a psychotic killer. The action took place in medieval Europe.

Surely these examples demonstrate that successful books can be written that revolve around just about any topic there is. Plumbing, for instance, does not sound like the basis for suspense fiction, but what if the plumber happened to overhear a conversation while he was fixing a pipe. Wanting to learn more, he fixed the pipes in such a way that the owner would have to call him again. What do you do or know about that you could be the beginning of a bestselling novel?

In order to make your story believable, you just need to create a believable main character that readers can sympathize with. This character needs a secondary character with a well defined personality that opposes the protagonist. Add to that a plot that becomes more suspenseful with each turn of the page and you have the ingredients for great suspense fiction books. Does that not sound more interesting than writing a how to manual?