2020's best crime writers on where mystery fiction is today
Advertisement Advertisement A critic wrote of “A Beautiful Crime”: “Bollen writes expansive, psychologically probing novels in the manner of Updike, Eugenides, and Franzen, but he’s an avowed disciple of Agatha Christie.” How does that statement — and the assumptions it makes about literature versus crime fiction — resonate for you? Bollen: (Laughing) I discovered Agatha Christie in the fourth grade, and became obsessed with reading her novels, so mysteries were my gateway drug into reading and loving literature. Author Jennifer Hillier of “Little Secrets” (Darren Blohowiak)...
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