Sunday, 9 March 2014

Writing Styles In The Latest Crime Novels

By Leticia Jensen


Over time there have been many different trends in mystery writings. The latest crime novels follow one or more of these trends. Mystery novelists have evolved since the first book was written centuries ago. The cozy read by the fire is no longer the popular seller that it once was. The audience wants and deserves more than a cozy read can be expected to deliver.

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.

Many of the thrillers on the market today take place in international settings and involve presidents or government incidents. They may involve mass murders or preventing those mass murders. There may be a multitude of individuals who make up the body of the book and must be developed as completely as the hero or heroes have been.

One popular group of mystery writers use one main character that they write many novels about. The lead person is the detective who is in charge of the investigation as a rule everyone looks to them for all of answers. This trend is very popular and many followers wait in anticipation of the next book in whatever series they are following.

Mystery writers must maintain a very cutting edge attitude to sustain their reader's interest and keep them turning the pages. Some pay attention to what is happening in the news for the story line they will follow. Others may look to television shows that are successful to direct their lines of thought and create the plot they want.

The thing you might say about mystery novels is that story lines are varied and different in many ways as they have always been but that the back ground and personalities have evolved into believable individuals. The characters have been developed into someone that is nearly alive to their followers and people look forward to reading about their exploits from book to book.




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