Eleanor Taylor Bland

Let’s face it: We all really love to read a good murder, which we know to be fictional. Why? Possibly because a murder is still the ultimate link to our own sense of mortality: We can relate to it, as we can relate to the idea of loss and that of finding the guilty culprit and seeing him or her punished appropriately. Knowing that it’s a fictional murder, means we know that it will reach satisfying closure, where the criminals go to jail and the good of society prevails. And that there are probably delicious hairpin bends in the tale to keep us interested. For probably all of these reasons, crime fiction is the genre of American novelist Eleanor Taylor Bland.