· Immediately Engage the Reader · Discovery of a person’s body is a great way to begin a mystery or crime novel. This single event requires readers to use their imagination and ask so many questions. Also, the resulting death investigation is naturally structured to periodically reveal answers to those questions. Who is the dead person? What was he or she doing at that location? How and why did the person die? Was the death natural, an accident, suicide, or a homicide? Here’s a recent … [Read more...] about Writing a Novel