As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had pets.
I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.
I never read the "Bobbsey Twins" or "Boxcar Children."But I did remember being downtown, at the bookstore by myself and having an allowance and spending it on a Nancy Drew mysteries. And I was probably eleven, twelve.
I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike.
I have always loved reading books for children and young adults, particularly when those books are mysteries.
I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
Summer is my favorite time to read mysteries.
In terms of pure volume, I probably read more psychological mystery and historical true crime than anything else.
I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.
I love the whole mystery-detective genre - I love all of that.
Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out.
In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery.
I think Hallmark is doing this really exciting thing right now, where they buy a series of books, they're books for young adults, or adolescents, and they're really fun Agatha Christie-style mysteries. I actually signed on for three of them.
One of the things that has puzzled me the most in my years of serious mystery reading is why there are relatively few standout books geared specifically for middle grade and young adult readers.
