The state of the mystery
by Oline H. Cogdill
November 11th, 2009Each of us are mystery fiction fans, right?
Otherwise, we wouldn’t be readers of Mystery Scene and frequent visitors to this blog site.
And we thank you for that.
But what is the state of the mystery novel? What do we really think of it?
Then come to a discussion of the state of the mystery on the Huffington Post.
Author Jason Pinter interviewed six of us about our opinions on crime fiction. The critics weighing in are myself, David J. Montgomery, Patrick Anderson, Sarah Weinman and magazine publishers Kate Stine of Mystery Scene and Jon Jordan of Crimespree.
Come read what we have to say and let us know what you think.
Very interesting discussion. Very encouraging to hear that you all take small presses seriously – though a little disheartening to read that some of your colleagues really do focus on the big-budget thrillers. Ah well, some of you read everything, bless you!