The Mystery, Crime, and Thriller Group discussion

I would like some advice from mystery readers. My book is a murder mystery with a Native paranormal twist. BISAC has an "Occult and Paranormal" category but Kindle and Amazon don't use BISAC categories, they have their own system and when you choose a BISAC category for your book Amazon places it in the nearest approximate category on their site, and unfortunately they don't have an Occult and Paranormal category.

My book is on Amazon under Mysteries and Thrillers > Mystery but I am allowed a second category. Amazon has a category called Religion and Spirituality > Fiction > Mystery, but putting it here automatically gets my book listed also in Religious Fiction > Mystery and this category (and category bedfellows) implies Christian beliefs, which I think might be turning away potential readers either because they don't share these beliefs or they are looking in the category precisely for a Christian book and are offended because the book isn't that.

The book also has a romantic-suspense element, but I fear putting it in this category might scare off men, who so far have really enjoyed the novel and given it good reviews. So either I have to leave it just in Mysteries and Thrillers and not give it a second category on Amazon/Kindle, or I have to choose the lesser of two possible evils.

It would help me greatly if mystery readers could share their thoughts on how important these secondary categories are when you go looking for mystery books and whether seeing the book also listed in Religious Fiction or Romantic-Suspense would be a turn-off.

Thank you in advance for your kind assistance.

I don't know anything about your book, but Amazon has a Paranormal Mystery category.

Where?? When I check Amazon, under Mysteries and Thrillers > Mysteries, the categories are:
Anthologies (3,053)
British Detectives (3,670)
Canadian Detectives (316)
Cat Sleuths (131)
Hard-Boiled (3,712)
Historical (2,573)
Reference (739)
Sherlock Holmes (832)
Women Sleuths (9,790)

Thrillers have the sub-categories of:
Legal (2,273)
Medical (719)
Psychological Thrillers (10,284)
Spy Stories & Tales of Intrigue (10,167)
Suspense (32,457)
Technothrillers (1,874)

The Kindle categories are essentially identical.

Can you please tell me where you find the Paranormal Mystery category. If can find it then I can ask Amazon to change my book's second category.

Maybe it's just a tag. When I searched "Paranormal", it listed paranormal mystery.

I think you're right that it's a tag. My book has appropriate tags but I'm being thwarted by categories.:-(

I like those type of mysteries and generally search for them primarily in the mystery/thriller lists.

I actually tend to avoid, in general, the romance and religious categories primarily because I do not want either of those to be the primary focus of the mystery.