A Good Mystery
By chulce
@chulce (1537)
United States
March 14, 2012 7:43am CST
Recently, I've been hooked on reading mysteries. I love the thrill of trying to figure out who did what in the stories. Seeing if I can figure it out quickly enough. However, I don't like a lot of gore and death in my mysteries. Why is it that authors feel that there always has to be a ton of killing in the mysteries these days.
I have to admit one set of mystery books that doesn't do a lot in the way of murders and such is by an Author that passed away in 2010. Her name is Lilian Jackson Braun. She wrote a series off books that started out with the title "The Cat Who...." From there, the name of the title changed through out the series for each story.
She did a wonderful job creating this series and gathering inspiration from her siamese cats.
2 responses
@alberello (4752)
• Italy
15 Mar 12
Although I personally do not read books of any kind, I must say, however, of thrill of being a lover. This is my "taste" of the thrill, the practice of watching horror movies. I, like you, however I do not like scenes of bloodshed. I prefer the classic ghost story, haunted houses, demonic presences, etc.. A friend of mine told me that educative is nothing like watching this kind of movies, but I, knowing that it is only fiction, does not bother me at all!
@Shellyann36 (11384)
• United States
15 Mar 12
Mysteries are my favorite kind of books to read. I have several authors that I always rely on. Nora Roberts, Nora Roberts as J.D. Robb, Tami Hoag, James Patterson, Stuart Woods, Elizabeth George, Tess Gerritsen & Lisa Gardner are a few of them. I think that Tess Gerritsen and Stuart Woods are two of my favorites. Elizabeth George is an American author but her stories are all set in Great Britain. That is a twist that is very interesting. Things are totally different there than here as far as police procedure goes. (Or at least I think so.) I will have to look into Lilian Jackson Braun, I have not read any of her stories before.
