Why is crime fiction your favourite genre?
Why is crime fiction your favourite genre?
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Mostly it’s the character development – if it’s done well, the book is better; if not, I don’t bother to finish it.
Also the anticipation of the plot!
There is an opportunity in crime fiction to develop many threads, one only of which is solving the crime – and I sometimes like it where it is difficult to put your finger on the actual crime until later on and then the other threads conjoin…
@Pete Now, that’s the sort of sophisticated statement I wish I’d made! I look at mine and see lame-o!…but, yes, developing other tangents is satisfying to read…anything else is just a minor who-done-it.
Take for instance the Louise Penney Inspector Gamache series, or the renowned Donna Leon Commissario Brunetti tales…very robust re fleshing out characters, not to mention the locations, the backgrounds, the relationships. Those are the ones I like the very best.
Exciting, mysterious, if well written totally ‘non put down able’
I love a story with a twist. Trying to work out what is going on, spotting clues etc. Half hoping I will be completely wrong! Also I love the suspense/tension that comes with reading crime.
Fictional police and detectives have more of a personality than real ones
Writing crime novels gives me an adrenaline rush. ?
this is the only thing i know. i get the others but they never get me.
I like the old fashioned whodunits because of the puzzle. To be able to get into to the story and figure out the clues. And then be surprised in the end when I hadn’t figured it out at all. 🙂
Lovely nice stories bore me. I like dark nasty sht.
HAHAHAHA! Yup! Me, too…
Reading a lovely nice story.now….. Yawn
Because even if fiction likes ? 2 get in killers head 2 c u they do it!!! Xxx
I have to admit that I often ask myself this question! By nature, I’m a softie who loves children and animals and wouldn’t say boo to a goose; yet I love nothing better than a good serial killer thriller!
Me too! I sometimes have my son worried with the things that I say, hahahaha
I love dark nasty shit as well, that’s why I love noir. And writing it as well. I have a theory that people who like crime novels are actually the nicest people, as we channel the dark side of ourselves into our reading and writing.
I don’t go for too much noir because by definition, it’s about the villain or victim rather than an investigator/police officer.
Pure fundamental human nature in all its array of colours from the deepest black through to bright shining white & everything in between. Human psychology of the criminal mind is fascinating x
Crime comes in many guises, from identity theft to full blown murder. We can often identify with the characters, something that we know we can never do in real life. Add to this the mystery, and knowing that the clues are hidden within the text, crime stories appeal to our alter egos.
I enjoy crime thrillers because of the building of he story, sometimes there is a couple of threads and it gets you thinking how they might be linked, there’s the police procedures, the crime forensics……..I love the details, I don’t like rushed endings which some authors do and this spoils the book for me but I like a natural conclusion plus I like a good murder with lots of blood or a really good serial killer and yes I love horror too 🙂
I have a theory about ‘rushed endings’. As an author of four books, I have a lot of reviews under my belt now, and several speak of the ending being rushed, but the prequel to the statement is usually something along the lines of ‘I loved this book, loved the characters but…’ I can assure you I do not rush endings, they occur at a natural pace, but I believe the reader, if they are enjoying the book, does not want it to arrive at that natural conclusion. A book cannot carry on forever, it has to stop at some point. I’m sorry I have to kill people, but there you go, I’m a natural murderer and all things have to end. Endings aren’t rushed, they just happen.
Are the endings rushed by some though…or has just the impetus of the storytelling pushed/rushed us along at such a pace that it’s an anti climax, the sudden end to something so absorbing and hopefully heart racing…that it leaves us almost bereft that the story has ended?
I think it leaves people feeling bereft. In 34 Days, I had several reviews where they said they didn’t want the ending I gave, and that I had rushed it. I wouldn’t insult my readers my rushing anything; what I actually did was leave it open for a sequel, which is now one third written. But because it was left reasonably open, I was accused of rushing it! One reviewer actually said she thought I had gone on holiday and left someone else to finish it lol.