Crime fiction is also known as mystery writing and has many sub categories.

It deals mainly with crimes, their detection, criminals, investigators and their motives.

Many reviewers relegate crime novels to catch-all columns where a number of titles are reviewed together as if the writers lived together in an attic somewhere.

However, visit a bookshop and see how much expensive floorspace is given over to crime titles and their spin-offs and its attraction becomes more obvious.

Tales of mystery solved hark back to a flickering fire and moving shadows in the darkness beyond.

All hale, the taleteller...

For lively club discussion on writing crime see here.
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