Yesterday I began fleshing out a character, the murderer, for a murder mystery I'm tentatively calling Murder in Meadowmead....

Let’s create a murderer! Today I'm trying something a bit different. In my last post ( 8 Ways to Make a Murderer ) I talked about...

I’ve decided to try something new! As many of you know, I’m putting together a book on how to write a murder mystery (see: How to Write...

"Once I figure out whom to kill, and how, and of course why, then I start asking myself what the killer did wrong, or what he ove...

Today, I’d like to talk about what I’m going to call the ‘ conflict character .’ As I’ve mentioned , the antagonist as antag...

I’ve been writing about murder mysteries quite a bit lately. I PROMISE I’ll write about something else for the next post! (If you’d l...

What follows is a structure —one-among-many—a murder mystery could have. If you would like to read about a general story structure head ...

Agatha Christie’s book, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd , was the very first murder mystery I ever read! It’s not surprising I took to Chr...