Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.
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If the book is a mystery to its author as she's writing, inevitably it's going to be a mystery to the reader as he or she reads it.
I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that.
There is nothing better than a really cool mystery: you don't know what's going to happen, so you keep turning those pages or watching that series.
I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.
I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.
I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.
Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.
All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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