
Crime or legal thrillers, which I rarely read, are written to be exciting and to keep you the reader guessing who the perpetrator is or, if she’s identified early in the story, whether she is in fact guilty. Crime thriller, I think, is one genre in which the plot is primary. Characterization may not be […]

Margaret Hale, the heroine in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South is not a typical Victorian lady.