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Why do people like reading and watching detective stories? This book is a detective story, moving to discover an answer to this question. A murder tears a jagged hole in society. A detective discovers this hole and then repairs it, helping us all to live with each other.

Produktbeschreibung
Why do people like reading and watching detective stories? This book is a detective story, moving to discover an answer to this question. A murder tears a jagged hole in society. A detective discovers this hole and then repairs it, helping us all to live with each other.
Autorenporträt
Keith Oatley and Jennifer Jenkins are married and have been together for 45 years. They are university professors, psychologists who enjoy reading and discussing detective stories. Both have become well known academically for their empirical research and theories. They wrote the first edition of the longest running textbook on emotions: Understanding Emotions. In this current book, they work with readers to discover why detective stories are of such interest to so many people.