Tired of books whose main selling point is the increasingly baroque ways the murder kills (usually) women but also not interested in 25 book series of owner of cute bookshop/ bakery/ craft shop/ bed and breakfast/ cattery and for all I know podiatry practice “solving”crime with the help of their mum, their gran and that nice Mrs Thompson from the post office.
I also prefer detective to thriller – so often the solution depends on random chance or the detective getting kidnapped or the killer making a stupid mistake. A detective with brains would be great.
by NotaMaidenAunt