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Title: Do you prefer mysteries by male or female authors, or doesn't it matter to you?
Post by: Becke Davis on January 13, 2020, 12:25:09 am
While searching Google to find books that feature characters of only one gender (in other words, all female characters or all male characters) I found several articles on trends in mystery (which I'm using as a general description, but including psychological suspense, thrillers, noir, cozies, gothics, etc.). Here are some that might interest you:

https://bookriot.com/2019/12/06/mystery-books-where-the-victim-is-not-a-woman/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11440540/Thrillers-and-crime-novels-Are-women-hardwired-to-love-them.html

https://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Thriller-Suspense-Female-Protagonists/s?rh=n%3A157305011%2Cp_n_feature_sixteen_browse-bin%3A7130673011

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/77663-10-sexy-thrillers.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/25/books/review/godmother-hannelore-cayre-thrillers-by-women.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/08/men-are-pretending-to-be-women-to-write-books/535671/

This one is going to increase my to-be-read-pile, I'm afraid:

https://www.mysterytribune.com/top-7-bestselling-mystery-thriller-books-featuring-female-protagonists/
Title: Re: Do you prefer mysteries by male or female authors, or doesn't it matter to you?
Post by: JRob on January 13, 2020, 04:06:02 am
I don't care who writes a book. It is more important that the book they write be something I actually want to read.
Title: Re: Do you prefer mysteries by male or female authors, or doesn't it matter to you?
Post by: Becke Davis on January 13, 2020, 06:30:50 pm
I don't care who writes a book. It is more important that the book they write be something I actually want to read.

I agree. Going through some of the mysteries I've read recently, a lot of them are by female authors. But a fair number are by men: Lee Child, Harlan Coben, Michael Connelly, David Baldacci, Rex Stout, Dick Francis, Peter Robinson, Stephen King, Michael Crichton, John Dickson Carr, (vintage) Carter Dickson (vintage), Robert Ludlum, William Kent Kreuger, Brad Parks, Ken Isaacson, Jim Butcher, Jonathan Kellerman, Blake Crouch, Philip MacDonald (vintage), G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown mysteries, Craig Johnson, Jeffrey Archer, Aaron Elkins, Simon Brett, Jeffrey Marks, Jeff Abbott, Linwood Barclay, John Verdon, Cyril Hare, Anthony Horowitz, Lawrence Block, Michael Gilbert, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and even A.A. Milne (his classic mystery is THE RED HOUSE MYSTERY).
Title: Re: Do you prefer mysteries by male or female authors, or doesn't it matter to you?
Post by: dhaupt3 on February 04, 2020, 04:56:14 am
It's all about the writing but I must admit that women authors understand how women's minds work and they are usually my go to authors however saying that there are a few men authors who I've read everything they've written like Nelson DeMille (I even had the chance to interview him once he's fascinating), Michael Connelly, John Sandford (all his series) and I'm sure there are more.
Title: Re: Do you prefer mysteries by male or female authors, or doesn't it matter to you?
Post by: Becke Davis on February 04, 2020, 04:54:21 pm
It's all about the writing but I must admit that women authors understand how women's minds work and they are usually my go to authors however saying that there are a few men authors who I've read everything they've written like Nelson DeMille (I even had the chance to interview him once he's fascinating), Michael Connelly, John Sandford (all his series) and I'm sure there are more.

I've read one or two books by Nelson DeMille and John Sandford, but I've read a LOT of Michael Connelly's books. Not all, by any means - I can't keep up. Did you see the BOSCH series on TV? I thought it was surprisingly good. (I tend to expect the worst when it comes to television adaptations of books.)
Title: Re: Do you prefer mysteries by male or female authors, or doesn't it matter to you?
Post by: dhaupt3 on February 04, 2020, 07:09:42 pm
It's all about the writing but I must admit that women authors understand how women's minds work and they are usually my go to authors however saying that there are a few men authors who I've read everything they've written like Nelson DeMille (I even had the chance to interview him once he's fascinating), Michael Connelly, John Sandford (all his series) and I'm sure there are more.

I've read one or two books by Nelson DeMille and John Sandford, but I've read a LOT of Michael Connelly's books. Not all, by any means - I can't keep up. Did you see the BOSCH series on TV? I thought it was surprisingly good. (I tend to expect the worst when it comes to television adaptations of books.)

No I don't subscribe because I watch so little TV, in fact I even get  the Outlander series on dvd after the end of the season