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Help! How can I get this thing started?

Where, or, more accurately, how do you start a mystery novel? Certainly not with the familiar dark and stormy night, the now-cliched beginning penned 185 years ago by British novelist Edward...

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Whodunit: murder mysteries 101

Who has sold the most mystery books? Where did the line, “the butler did it” come from? And who wrote the first detective novel? Begun more than 170 years ago, the detective story is a staple of...

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How do you catch a reader’s attention? With the first sentence.

Editor’s note:  Writers Who Kill is unlike many book blogs or book websites.  Articles submitted to it are read and carefully edited before they are published.   The site features reviews of new...

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Ride the Pink Horse for an intimate profile and emotional journey

Ride the Pink Horse Dorothy B. Hughes 208 pages MysteriousPress.com/Open Road   June 18, 2013 Originally published,  1946 $1.99 Kindle A drunken, overweight, apparently homeless man who sleeps on the...

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