Why we read mysteries?

Do you like to curl up with a mystery book? Do you find it hard to put the book down once you get started? Have you ever thought about the reasons we read mysteries? Mysteries are filled with suspense and we like to see it build to come to the climax and finally to the end. We like the suspense because it keeps us guessing what will happen later on. People like mysteries because they give you action until the end trying to get the crime resolved.

People like to read mysteries because we go through troublesome times. We want to get away from our own troubles and experience somebody else's. In a mystery or any book we enter into the main character's world and journey with them throughout the book. While we do this we get away from our own cares in this world. We travel with someone with a totally different set of problems to face to come to a conclusion. People want to go on an emotional ride with this main character, so that they feel for them. Readers want to cheer when they cheer and cry when they cry. We like to feel emotions for the character that the author created.

We like mysteries because they take our imagination away to different lands. Mystery readers get to see different places through the words of an author. They get to use their imagination to guess at the events that will occur. Our imagination gets carried away while we are reading mysteries as we imagine how the crime will be solved. With each clue the reader gets more excited. Red herring clues, which lead the detective the wrong way, make the mystery even more enjoyable because readers don't want for it to be to simple for the detective to solve the case.

Mysteries are good for readers, too, because you never know what twists and turns it might take winding the way to the end. We never know what the detective might face or what setbacks the detective might have before the end, which makes people want to keep reading to find out what all will happen. We like all the action mysteries give to keep us going on through. Mysteries give a reader something to think about until their conclusion. The next time you pick up a mystery novel you will find what makes them enjoyable