Person, Place, or Crime: Where to Start Your Mystery

Sometimes the hardest place to start a mystery is precisely there: the beginning. Is it better to start with a description of the setting? Introducing an engaging character? Revealing a heinous (or perhaps seemingly innocuous) crime? Mystery author C. Hope Clark, who has written more than a dozen mystery/thriller novels will lead writers through this essential part of writing mysteries.

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C. Hope Clark is the author of The Carolina Slade Mysteries,  The Edisto Island Mysteries, and The Craven County Mysteries. She’s editor of FundsforWriters, one of the Writer’s Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers and published in The Writer Magazine, Writer’s Digest, Guide to Literary Agents, Writer’s Market, and other trade and online publications.