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Write A Killer Mystery Bonus One: Read to Write Read To Write Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You’ll find what you need to find. Just read. Neil Gaiman ● Reading Is How Writers Grow If you want to be a good writer, you need to read. Read in your genre. Read out of your genre. ➢ Reading Inspires - Get ideas for your story. ➢ Reading Instructs - Learn how others craft story. ➢ Reading Connects - Meet and engage with fellow authors. You’ll find yourself reading with a new awareness. Reading other writers works as a touchstone for your mystery. ➢ How the detective is introduced. ➢ How evidence and clues appear in the story. ➢ How to weave subplots into the main story. ➢ How the sleuth arrives at the final conclusion. Ask yourself if you would emulate the writer’s process. Or not, Reading helps you refine your style and craft. 2 The list of authors includes a wide variety of styles and subgenres. Read classics to see how the mystery genre began. Read mysteries in your subgenre and outside your subgenre. The more you read, the better your story. This is a starter to get you going. Reading is a life-long writer activity. Classics Wilkie Collins Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Agatha Christie Dashiell Hammett Dorothy L. Sayers Edgar Allen Poe G. K. Chesterton Mickey Spillane Psychological Ruth Rendell Elizabeth George 3 Contemporary C. J. Fox Michael Connelly Ian Rankin Philip Kerr P. D. James Patricia Highsmith Graham Greene Daphne du Maurier Eric Ambler Rex Stout Ross Macdonald John D. Mac Donald Sue Grafton John Grisham Walter Mosley Elmore Leonard Tony Hillerman Umberto Eco Ken Follett James Ellroy Tana French Donna Leone Frederick Forsyth Anne Perry Mary Higgins Clark Lee Child Joseph Wambaugh Adrian McKinty Scott Turow Caleb Carr James M. Cain Mary Roberts Rinehart Margaret Millar Josephine Tey Dennis Lehane Peter Hǿeg Jo Nesbǿ Very Caspary 4 Ann Cleeves Georges Simonin Andrea Camilleri Arnaldur Indridason Joy Ellis Peter Robinson Don Winslow Ann Holt Anthony Horowitz Tony Parsons 5 .

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