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women readers of mysteries
Not familiar with Erica Spindler but like the others you mentioned.
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women readers of mysteries
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I would like to comment on a discussion that was taking place here a couple of days ago regarding women and mystery books. I think the members were all of the male gender, but am not sure. As a lon...
Started this discussion. Last reply by I. J. Parker Nov 18.
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Ah, but there are more older women buying. And the decline of romance has led many romance writers to switch to mystery.
As a bookdealer I have found that many women especialy the young like hard bouiled crime. The older woman likes cosies. Very few are interested in Romance
Coffin? I remember a Coffin? British policeman? Don't remember any sheets though.
:) Well, I have a hard time identifying totally and in every respect with a male protagonist. Akitada is a composite of some of the good and interesting men I have known or observed or read about. Strangely, I also don't identify with his wife or ...
I dunno, I got the impression that Coffin was pretty adequate between the sheets... :P
Most romance in thrillers or mystery novels are not very interesting anyways...kind of bing bang....its over.
As a reader I need a knock out start, lots of action and a plot to kill.
Your books are great forget that mushy stuff with Sugawara Akitada...
As a feminist (since I married a woman and have three daughters who are also women) I have written a series of books with female protagonists. It's the Mystery Club series published as ebooks by Wings ePress. Wings also releases two as paperbacks ...
Beg to differ.
Minerva's cracking me up with these lists. I'm happy to say again the my detective has none of these attributes, though his sidekick--a woman--has three out of five.
And I've said this before here, in other words, but Faye Kellerman is like hot butter, too soft for me, more a sissy lit writer. When she and Jonathan write together, you can never miss when she's at the computer. I'm sure she's a wonderful, smart...
I second Anne's response. In fact, I will not read an author twice if there is over-emphasis on the romance or sex angle. I am looking for a good, well-developed plot and interesting characters. I want good writing and a good setting. Give me a gr...
Good to hear. It does take a good balance of the sexes, without being mushy. I mean, there are romances with mysteries, and mysteries with romance, but if it's billed as a mystery, then any romance shouldn't detract from the story, plot, etc.
I think you would enjoy her books. This is a list of some of her books:
Last Known Victim
Killer Takes All
See Jane Die
Breakneck
In Selence
Bone Cold
Cause for Alarm
Fortune
Red
Dead Run
Copycat
You are right about the manly superheroes.
And I don't do wish-fulfillment. Maybe that's my problem.
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- I have loved and read mysteries since I first discovered Nancy Drew. There are many great mystery writers, but I'm always happy to discover someone who is new to me.
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- At 2:19pm on November 20, 2009,
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