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Quiz: What Thriller Protagonist Are You?

Jamie Canaves

Contributing Editor

Jamie Canavés is the Tailored Book Recommendations coordinator and Unusual Suspects mystery newsletter writer–in case you’re wondering what you do with a Liberal Arts degree. She’s never met a beach she didn’t like, always says yes to dessert, loves ‘80s nostalgia, all forms of entertainment, and can hold a conversation using only gifs. You can definitely talk books with her on Litsy and Goodreads. Depending on social media’s stability maybe also Twitter and Bluesky.

This thriller protagonist quiz is sponsored by NEW YORK STATION by Lawrence Dudley.

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Do you read thrillers and think you totally could have solved that mystery? Or they should have never run down that alley, you would have run toward the crowd of people instead! Well, here’s your chance to finally prove you’d make an excellent thriller protagonist by finding out which one you’d be. And obviously this is super scientific and once you finish taking the quiz you will be tossed into the middle of a thriller. Ready? Go!