Sleuth

Gail Bowen is the author of the Joanne Kilbourn mystery series. The seventeen novels have met with critical and financial success, and the first six were produced as made-for-TV movies. Bowen has also written the Charlie Dowhanuik mysteries, four novels targeted at reluctant readers.  For over twenty years she taught English and Creative Writing at First Nations University of Canada. She and her husband, Ted, live in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Bowen's slim, useful guide expertly takes writers through the craft of writing mystery fiction.... She takes pains to stress that there is no magic spell to creating a great mystery; it's a process that she follows for every single book but remains fascinated by. - Publishers Weekly

• Chapter 1: The Push toward WritingChapter 2: Getting StartedChapter 3: Prewriting Your MysteryChapter 4: Writing Your MysteryChapter 5: Point of View / Narrative PerspectiveChapter 6: SettingChapter 7: CharacterizationChapter 8: PlotChapter 9: StyleChapter 10: Creating a Robust SeriesChapter 11: EditingChapter 12: Getting PublishedAcknowledgementsSelected References