I’ve been listening to nordic crime fiction audiobooks lately and I feel like I meet the same female character. Both in the role as the protagonist and victim / victim’s mom.
A character with an undiagnosed eating disorder, needed to be nurtured by a male character. Focus on interior and beauty. A nervous beautiful character solving crime, then faints.
Do you have the same experience? Is it a nordic crime fiction cliché? Am I bad at picking books? Reading too much into gender?
The book I listened to last night was so bad, in so many ways, should never have started it. The victim’s mom naming expensive brands while her daugther is kidnapped and assaulted.
by misery-inc
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Maybe they are just bad books. Cliché is everywhere. The majority of authors today will be forgotten in 10-20 years anyway.
Yeah it’s a pretty common trope in crime fiction tbh (Nordic or otherwise). Myb try other authors? Or crime fiction written by women?
My fav crime authors are Gillian Flynn and Lynda La Plante. Give them a go!