![]() ![]() The obvious conflict of a boy and a girl as partners in detecting, is further enhanced by both of these characters being different from each other, and different from everybody else. (Harking back to the panel mentioned above, it seems that there is a very large adult readership of YA fiction now). It's fiction written for readers around the same age as the two central characters, but it's also very accessible for adults. Rachel Watts and James Mycroft (with an obvious hat tip to Sherlock Holmes going on). After all, a lot of firmly welded on crime fiction readers would have progressed straight from the likes of Trixie Belden, Famous Five and the Hitchcock mysteries straight to Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh and the like (allowing for the age category into which the reader falls obviously).ĮVERY BREATH is crime fiction based around two teenage protagonists. ![]() It came as a mild surprise that this is now a special category, but it is particularly pleasing to know there are some YA Crime Fiction books popping up. At the recent Ballarat Writers / Sisters in Crime collaboration, DEATH IN JULY, one of the panels was on YA writing and books. ![]()
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