That's because I put the value on the mystery first
, and so am impressed by SF/fantasy/paranormal who can also do a good mystery. So instead of thinking about mystery writers who can't get the SF/fantasy/paranormal right, I'm looking at SF/fantasy/paranormal writers thinking some of them can't get the mystery right. Which I mostly DNF...
And if you want to go the other way: Charlaine Harris, who started with the Aurora Teagarden series, but is obviously more famous for the Sookie Stackhouse books; Elizabeth Peters of Amelia Peabody fame, who wrote a bunch of successful non-series paranormals as Barbara Michaels; Carolyn Hart with Death on Demand and Henrie O, before she wrote her Bailey Ruth series; even Manning Coles with Tommy Hambledon well before the (too few) Charles and James Latimer books.
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Originally Posted by salty-horse
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It's other way around. The authors you quote are authors known for SFF who happen mix mysteries in the genres they're known for. I don't think this trend ever went away. It's just usually localized. Adam Christopher wrote a bunch of noir mysteries a few years back with a transistors-and-tape robot about 10 years ago, Nick Harkaway's current series is SF with a detective, Lavie Tidhar just finished writing a bunch of vampire detective fiction that's been going on for some years, etc.
In this case we have a non-SFF author adding a bit of SFF, which is usually done without the usual having deep familiarity with the field, aimed at the author's usual "mainstream" readers, so the treatment is considered shallow by fans.
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