Crime novels are the new black
Crime and thriller novels triumph in a boom and recession. That's the good news for crime writers and readers and it comes from a recent survey commissioned by The Bookseller magazine and conducted by The Next Big Thing. Despite tightening purse strings people still enjoy a good crime novel, me included. The survey throws up some interesting data and although should not be taken as gospel it provides a snapshot into the reading and buying habits in the UK. You can read about the findings at http://www.thebookseller.com/in-depth/feature/88461-reading-the-future.html but here are a couple of juicy bits that particularly concern crime writers like myself. "3,159 people responded (just over 1,000 were surveyed in 2008 and all in face-to-face street interviews). They came from across all regions of the country, included a broad spread of adult age groups, a representative spread of all socio-economic groups, and an equal number of men and women." In 2009 interviews were condu...