Reading crime novels actually can help you overcome loneliness!
It is a fact that many lonely people curl up with a crime paperback in hand and they get so engrossed in it, all the lonely feelings are gone!
They become one with the book and its characters.
Depression of any sort is thrown out the window and you are one of the characters in the book.
Reading itself has proved to be a useful remedy in treating some depression-related conditions.
While this can be good news to many, any avid reader of crime novels will agree that it is a great stress-buster and curling up with a thriller can transport you into a realm of total excitement and activity.
Crime Novels
A well-written book has the power to shape one’s life and change it forever.
It can give the reader a new mindset and change the course of life.
It could be something about the story or the author’s style that captures your imagination, but it is definitive.
Crime novels have this charm of keeping you in suspense with twists and turns and intrigue.
Mysteries could be really dramatic and the storyline could be so very engrossing that it could remain embedded in your mind forever.
This could influence the life of some people so much that friends or partners could be dumped for newer ones or careers could be made or switched.
It could overcome traumas and feelings of loneliness.
Such is the power of the written word!
If you look back, you will realize that crime novels have had an impact on their own and probably offered you a kind of stability.
When you had a problem in your personal life it was crime stories that restored a semblance of balance in your mind.
A long drawn crime series was possibly your steadfast friend that saw you through those chaotic phases that you were not sure about.
Crime novels did play a part in most peoples’ lives, for sure.
Crime Novels are most peoples’ favorites
The mention of crime novels brings a host of names to mind instantly- Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, John Grisham, Raymond Chandler, Daphne du Maurier, and Graham Greene to mention just a few.
The thought of Agatha Christie (Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE) brings to mind the fictional detectives who are popular to this day- Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple.
The Mousetrap also comes to mind.
Incidentally, it was the longest-running mystery play in the world.
Who can ever forget Sherlock Holmes created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?
Along with his sidekick Dr.Watson, Holmes was the archetypical crime buster who solver many a mystery others would only dream of.
The masterpieces will live on and provide entertainment and company to lonely souls across the world!
The above examples do not undermine the scores of other great crime writers and each has his or her own style of narration and expertise.
The crime novels churned out by the authors though in the same genre are unique in their own way.
The readers love to read and compare the writings and bask in the comfort the books offer!
Crime Novels you SHOULD read in your lifetime
Although Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles and Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd are considered the masterpieces by the respective authors, their long list of books makes it impossible to have just a few on any list.
So we leave them out of the fray, with the advice that readers may grab any of their titles and be satisfied.
- The Godfather- Mario Puzo
The Godfather is a truly epic crime classic.
You will feel in the thick of things right from the beginning as the Corleones considered the first family in the American Mafia go about their business.
The Godfather narrates their authoritative tradition of honor and revenge.
The book is an epitome of crime and betrayal.
- Rebecca- Daphne Du Maurier
The protagonist, Maxim de Winter, is a flamboyant widower who charms a pretty maid and taker her to his massive home in the countryside.
To her horror, she gradually finds out that his dead wife still has control over the goings-on at the estate.
- The Big Sleep- Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep is the first book in a series about Philip Marlowe, a private, hardcore detective.
General Sternwood hires Marlowe to save his daughter Carmen from a blackmailer.
It is an engrossing novel and a must-read.
- A Time to Kill- John Grisham
A distressing but fascinating story of vengeance and justice, ‘A Time to Kill’ is one of John Grisham’s best.
It is about a 10-year-old girl’s brutal rape by two men who are drunk.
The fact that the girl is black and the rapists are white men makes it even more intriguing as the book explores racism and violence.
The girl’s father decides to use an assault rifle to mete out justice to his daughter.
The courtroom drama that unfolds is a chef-d’oeuvre, resulting in a book that is un-put-downable!
- The Woman in White- Wilkie Collins
An enigmatic woman dressed in an all-white attire on a moonlit London road triggers Walter Hartright to get entangled with Sir Percival Glyde and his buddy Count Fosco and their sinister conspiracies.
The English country settings make an interesting backdrop for this mystery thriller in which the woman in white is, of course, the focus.
Get onto the bandwagon, you lonely people, go overcome your loneliness with these crime busters!
