For Writers

Craft & Technique

Plot, character, pacing and the mechanics of a mystery that works.

The reader should be able to solve it and still fail to. That is the whole trick, and it is a structural problem, not a clever one.

The hardest question in the cozy mystery: why is this person investigating instead of calling the police?

What to decide in book one, what to leave open, and how to keep a character interesting across four books.

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