（这段英文访谈的大意我能明白，最好谁能翻译一下）
BRC: Many readers ask us the difference between suspense/thriller and the mystery genres. Over the past few years the gap has been widening. How do you each see the differences?
John Gilstrap: Is the gap widening, or are we just seeing the birth of a thousand sub-categories? I think we've entered an age of specialization. Even within the "mystery" genre, you've got the "cozy," the "hard boiled," the "P.I.," the "noir," and heaven knows what else. When I tell people I write thrillers, I'm often asked, "So, you write stories like Tom Clancy?" (Answer: "Um, no.") I don't write techno-thrillers, medical-thrillers, legal thrillers or spy thrillers. Actually, now that you mention it, I'm not entirely sure what I do write. People-on-the-run thrillers, I guess, although even that is not true in every case. Thinking about it makes me a little dizzy.
There's much about this genrefication that I find confusing --- and, frankly, a little self-defeating for writers. Aren't most "mysteries" driven by a healthy dollop of suspense? Don't most thrillers have an underlying mystery that the protagonist is attempting to solve?
To my mind, I guess the primary differentiation between the mystery and the thriller is, in a mystery, we're mostly trying to discover who did what to whom, whereas in a thriller we're mostly trying to figure out how the good guy or the bad guy can achieve his elusive or dastardly goal.
Jeffery Deaver: A suspense/thriller novel asks the question, "What's going to happen?" A traditional mystery novel asks, "What happened?" In other words, the mystery is a puzzle that the hero (and reader) seek to unravel. A thriller is a carnival ride with the hero (and reader) in the front car.