Welcome to Call The Detective, a blog about the mystery, detective, police procedural, and crime fiction genres in both their prose and visual formats. The name's Jason and I'm somewhat of a newbie to those illustrious genres. I say somewhat because while it hasn't been until the last couple of years that I've started reading them, I've been a consumer of the various forms of mystery fiction ever since I was a lad. TV shows like Murder, She Wrote, Hunter, Father Dowling Mysteries, and more were what I watched growing up. But as I said, it wasn't until the last few years that I finally started reading the books and found that I enjoyed them a lot more than I thought I would.
Alas, I assumed incorrectly that while television mysteries and cop shows were fun to watch, the written forms wouldn't be. I couldn't have been any more wrong! While there have been books that I quit on, I have generally enjoyed the ones that I have finished.
So content-wise, expect posts about what I'm reading, "reviews" (and I can't emphasize those quotation marks enough because I am terrible at writing reviews) of books/short stories I've finished, any and all mystery/crime/cop shows or movies I've watched, and that sort of thing. Fair warning, I'm not a total devotee to the genres, so don't expect a high volume of posts, but this blog should be fairly active. I should also note that I have a side blog on Tumblr of the same name that will feature shorter posts and act as a supplemental to this longer form blog.
And I guess we're off to the races! I'll talk more about my favorite books, TV shows, and movies in future posts, so be on the lookout for those.
