The Unexpected Setting of a Mystery Novel

"I grew up watching my mum read crime novels and I know how very kind of seriously crime readers take them," she says. "So you hear these extraordinary conversations whereby crime readers would say, oh, I really didn't like that book. It cheated." The ending can be unexpected, but it can't come X nigh hello, the author adds. She hopes people who have never read a science fiction novel or a fantasy novel will not get bogged down by this setting.