How important is forensic detail in crime thriller writing?

[ironpony]

Okay thanks, but I think Michael Connelly is different than what I am going for cause he writes detective novels where as I am writing a revenge thriller, so the revenge aspects would be concentrated on a lot more, compared to the detective aspects, wouldn't they?

[CA4Now]

Originally Posted by ironpony

Okay thanks, but I think Michael Connelly is different than what I am going for cause he writes detective novels where as I am writing a revenge thriller, so the revenge aspects would be concentrated on a lot more, compared to the detective aspects, wouldn't they?

He has written thrillers (e.g. The Poet), though.

[ironpony]

Okay thanks. It's hard to know how much detail I need though. Like for example, in the movie The Departed

SPOILER

The villains throw the police captain off a roof of a building, in full view of other cops who were surveying them. And then the police act like they were suckered again, and the villains got away with it.

Apparently, all you need to do to get away with murdering a police captain, is throwing him off a roof a building and that's it. No more explanation needed. So I am very confused as to how much the reader expects there.

[LLCNYC]

Originally Posted by Chint

I think a story about living in self-storage facility could be more interesting.

This.

I'd read that book vs the current idea x1000.

[ironpony]

Oh okay, is the current idea not good?

[purehuman]

I think it's very important to include "forensic detail" in crime thrillers.
It makes for a better read in my opinion, and makes the story more [real] for the reader.

[ironpony]

Okay sure, I can do that. I thought if I went to much into detail, it makes the story more complicated and I need to trim the fat so to speak, but I can try to strike a balance or even have more detail in then.