Mysteries

I recently attended Murder in the Magic City and was interested to see that it was a majority of women in the audience. Not interested in the sense that my girlfriend might beat me up, but interested from a writing point of view.

I have often heard that women read more mysteries than men. Certainly, that conference seemed to provide some measurable proof.

I wonder though, why that is. Certainly, certain types of mysteries may appeal more to women than men, and vice versa. But there are plenty of male characters and plenty of action-oriented mysteries., both of which would seem to appeal more to guys, if we are thinking in terms of traditional gender roles.

Author CJ Box at the conference commented that he gets a lot of fan mail from men. His main character? A game warden.

Not sure what it all means. Certainly, gender roles are merging, changing and evolving. I'm certain the same can be said of traditional gender reading interests.