Crime books with 2 ongoing stirylines Personality I’m not a fan What about you?
Crime books with 2 ongoing stirylines
Personality I’m not a fan
What about you?
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Crime books with 2 ongoing stirylines
Personality I’m not a fan
What about you?
Now that depends entirely on how well the book is written. X
Don’t mind at all .. L.J Ross is pretty good at it
Most of Michael Connolly’s have 2 running stories (at least).
I’m a fan of personality 😉 And two storylines? No worries
As with everything, it depends how well it is done.
I don’t mind it as I try to work out how they inevitable connect later in the story. Black Water Lilies by Michel Bussi was a fantastic example of how to do this well.
I particularly liked this narrative technique
IMHO it’s impossible to generalise like this over books. One author may do a particular technique wonderfully well. Another may absolutely slaughter it. I would find it too rigid to say yes I like it, or not I don’t.
Yes. I have concentration skills ???
@Claire no need for that thank you
@Keith what, humour?
Unfortunately I don’t I have had 3 brain surgeries that is why I’m not a fan
Keith Fitzgerald sounds grim. Glad you’re here to tell the tale.
Keith Fitzgerald sounds grim. Glad you’re here to tell the tale.
@Keith what, humour?
If its done well like anything else it’s good. Life is full if different pathways etc so it would be very boring if a book was just one path wouldn’t it? Keep it busy, keep it full I reckon
I don’t like reading along, then have to say “Who is this guy again” and I have to backtrack to remind myself.
But that can happen with books with a single storyline, can’t it?
Not sure I would recommend my current book then!!!
Love them. Reading a great one at the moment ‘The Last Pilgrim’ – Gard Sveen.
I don’t mind.
Can work but needs a very good writer. Preferably not
Of the book flows ok then I am fine with it
The storylines are created via different characters; each should have a bearing on the main story question and inter-woven tighter & tighter as the story proceeds toward climax.
Peter Robinson has written a couple of these brilliantly well – particularly ‘In a Dry Season’. Highly recommended if you haven’t read it.
Most police procedurals have more than 1 storyline as a detective will have more than one case at a time.
Not fond of leaps in time if there are too many of them
Not a problem within one book with the right author – and most books have so have sub plots at the very least. Story arcs over several books are more of a challenge – esp if you’ve just picked up book four!
I don’t know… I just got done with Burke’s New Iberia Blues and it had a couple of different threads weaving through, but they got tied up together at the end… is that what you’re asking?
@Will I geuss so yeah
@Keith I was just thinking… Robert Parker often had a story line involving Susan in many of the Spenser novels that didn’t actually have to do with the case at hand
@Michael I usually have two storylines running side by side in my crime thrillers. It cuts down on bland stretches in a story and keeps things fast-paced.
@Michael Thanks for the likes, Maureen and Keith.
Yes no problem if it’s done well and they’re equally intriguing.