Crime rules.

[Allan Black]

In a radio interview with a notable writer here, it was mentioned that the worlds leading authors can't make a living writing anything but crime stories.
Is that true?

Came as a bit of a shock and I wondered what has 'lead' to this, no pun.

Cheers.

 

[clang]

Crime is certainly a popular genre, but then so is e.g. romance. Or books about sport or cooking for that matter. I don't see anything 'special' about crime, and it's hardly crowding out all the other genres in any bookshop or library i've ever seen.

 

[Randall_Oelerich]

Looking at what fills the shelves for fiction novels at the local Barnes and Noble, I don't buy into crime stories being all that writers make money writing.

 

[Name's Luke Y'all]

It's a response to the Nordic crime fiction mania. The vikings like dark stuff. Maybe it's the weather.