One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the readers is two steps behind the detective.... The ideal suspense reader, on the other hand, is two steps ahead of the hero.


How to Write Killer Fiction: The Funhouse of Mystery & the Roller Coaster of Suspense (ed. SCB Distributors, 2011) - ISBN: 9781564747051

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One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the...

One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the...

One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the...

One key to the distinction between mystery and suspense writing involves the relative positions of hero and reader. In the ideal mystery novel, the...