Scott Wallace of Christian Science Monitor asks, "Why the interest in worldly detectives? Some observers say readers are tired of poor products by assembly-line American writers."
-An excerpt from [my Pan African Sleuth favorite]The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency...I am not ashamed to be called an African patriot, said Mma Ramotswe. I love all the people whom God made, but I especially know how to love the people who live in this place. They are my people, my brothers and sisters. It is my duty to help them to solve the mysteries in their lives. That is what I am called to do.
Addressing Wallace's question there are American detective novels that have stepped out of the cookie-cutter mold as well. Glenville Lovell's caribbean american detective Blades Overstreet series sheds a new light on america, immigration history, and race. And its first book also has a character named Precious. :) Hi, Glenville.
Any christian mystery novelists writing outside the box out there?
Dee
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