by Ake Edwardsson, Never End and Frozen Tracks. I think these books are very good - though I am also, sadly, more than ever certain that I will never be an author of crime fiction. Which is a pity, because I love it very much indeed!
Another friend wrote to ask me the same thing! Combination of two different factors: (1) I do not have the skill set (I know no detectives, I know no criminals, I am not really inclined to note the sort of details you need to write the sociological portrait of a community which is one of the things I like so much about this kind of book); (2) I love spare stripped-down crime writing, but much as I hate to admit it, I have a more baroque and elaborate sensibility myself, and have come to admit after many years of striving for simplicity in my writing that it is not really my thing. I admire and enjoy crime fiction more than historical fiction in many respects, in other words, but my talents better fit me to write the latter than the former...
Why not? Just curious.
ReplyDeleteAnother friend wrote to ask me the same thing! Combination of two different factors: (1) I do not have the skill set (I know no detectives, I know no criminals, I am not really inclined to note the sort of details you need to write the sociological portrait of a community which is one of the things I like so much about this kind of book); (2) I love spare stripped-down crime writing, but much as I hate to admit it, I have a more baroque and elaborate sensibility myself, and have come to admit after many years of striving for simplicity in my writing that it is not really my thing. I admire and enjoy crime fiction more than historical fiction in many respects, in other words, but my talents better fit me to write the latter than the former...
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