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Thứ Bảy, 1 tháng 3, 2014

Changing Trends In The Latest Crime Novels

By Leticia Jensen


While mysteries have always garnered rapt attention by their followers the writers of today face a big challenge to keep their audience interested. The latest crime novels need to maintain a much more sophisticated level of information and detail to survive the market they occupy. The simple plots and characters from the past need to be fleshed out and personalized.

The advent of a more sophisticated reader has brought mystery writing to a new level of suspense. With the appearance of TV shows like CSI and Bones the reader is more familiar with the procedures used by legal teams and scientists to solve a seemingly unsolvable mystery. The successful authors of today's thrillers have taken this into consideration when creating the stories and characters in their books.

The audience wants to be more involved with their characters as well as the actual solving of a mystery. They want an intense relationship to develop between themselves and the hero of the story. It can give the reader a reason to keep turning the pages of a book when he feels involved with a hero as well as the criminal factors involved.

The mystery writer today must develop a personal life for the people who populate their book. Today's readers like to know what made the killer the way he or she is and they want to know that the hero has family and relationship struggles just like everyone else. Many of the novelists of today create super rich profiles for the leading character and some are consultants for the police department working the case.

Some authors have adopted the theme of international terrorism as their forte. The concept of stopping a specific terrorist or incident captures a reader's interest because it is actually happening in the world today. Conspiracies are also a popular subject with the readers of this era. The multiple characters that are developed demand a lot of attention to detail from the author to become believable enough for the best sellers lists.

A popular means to success that has developed over decades for some novelists is the continuing story of one character. Some writers are so adept at this line of writing that they have developed a character following that nearly guarantees a best seller with each new segment they write. You can see this with the Alex Cross series produced by James Patterson and in the Scarpetta series written by Patricia Cornwell.

Writers need to stay abreast of current events when devising their stories. Some areas they pay attention to are media based and currently in the public interest arena. The main object is to keep the interest of the reader throughout the book as well as pique the suspense, mystery or puzzle bones of everyone who reads it. That is the goal of every good writer.

The biggest change in crime novels is the involvement of readers in lives of people depicted in books. The story lines are as different as they have always been with the twist of being more technical than previous eras have shown themselves to be. Today's authors are far more cutting edge than their predecessors could have ever hoped to be.




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