Still keeping up with my reading of writing materials and I found it quite weird that in both magazines this month there was an analysis of crime writing. In Writing Magazine (July 09) Linda Castillo compares crime writing with romantic suspense - emphasising the need for strong characters and high stakes, and in Mslexia (Apr/May/Jun 09) Sophie Hannah compares crime fiction to poetry. She writes: "In a crime novel events need to be spaced in the right way. Several min-revelations are necessary in a detective story, prior to the big revelation at the end, and gaps of appropriate sizes must be present between these gasp-inducing moments."
They say that crime fiction can never be seen as literary fiction, but I for one feel that there are so many levels in a good crime novel that crime fiction really should be taken more seriously!!
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