Read On...Crime Fiction Reading Lists for Every Taste

Subjects:

• Library & Information Science » Adult Services -- General
• Library & Information Science » Adult Services -- Readers' Advisory

Reviews:

• Trott's well-organized book offers the history of crime fiction as a genre and then makes sure that the reader understands the elements that comprise quality crime fiction....This handy tool will work well for anyone who does readers' advisory in a public library. It would also be useful when developing a crime fiction collection or to offer when a customer is trying to figure out what to read next. This essential purchase can be used in many ways.
  —VOYA June 2008
• Instead of looking at mysteries in terms of subgenres and standard rubrics like location and time period, as many others do, this one focuses on the appeal factors--familiar in the readers' advisory world--of story, character, setting, mood, and language. Among the delights of this and other books in the series are the witty annotations and the often quirky categories.
  —American Libraries May 2008
• Both readers advisors and crime-fiction fans will find all sorts of inventive ways to use this book, including, of course, compiling their own lists of titles or categories that should have been represented. Reading lists should be considered conversation starters rather than answer providers, and Trotts contribution is perfectly designed for this application.
  —Booklist May 1, 2008

Table of Contents:

• Series Foreword
• Introduction
• Chapter One - Story
• Chapter Two - Character
• Chapter Three - Setting
• Chapter Four - Mood
• Chapter Five - Language

PDF Catalogs:
LU Academic Library Spring 2008.pdf	LU Public Library Spring 2008.pdf