MYSTERY SHE WROTE...
YEAR OF THE DOG
Mystery-suspense number seven was the result of several readers asking if History Professor Hank Rule was returning and-then about the same time, another Catholic Church scandal caught national headlines.
Once more, I was able to include factual research merged with my imagination.
Naturally we write what we know but including careful research at least for me, is just as much fun.
However, including current news and/or historical or technical facts can make plot challenges, for a writer. But - I've always liked that dare - mixing my plot and/or my characters or both with a new technology, or current event or documented history. Sorting out the plot complications can be an occasional headache but worth the effort.
It's worth it even more when a reader or several readers learn something or likes how I managed to create a plot around some extensive factual research.
According to literary agents and literary editors there are character driven plots or story driven plots. Frankly I don't care how my plots are described only that the characters are believable and likeable, the events characters must face make sense and the reader can't guess the ending halfway through the book. I like readers to 'think' they know what is going to happen but find themselves surprised. If/when that happens, I know I've done my job.
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Correlation fused to karma has an energy that ensures any loose ends or unfinished business - gets finished...
*CSU History Professor Hank Rule has retired with plans to relax far from any more media limelight. However, those plans become interrupted when former student and Baldpate investigative colleague Claire Gage, calls him again.
This time, what appears to be a simple missing person's case soon points to an affair with a Catholic priest, an unexplained death and a clandestine global organization on the brink of accomplishing an ambitious financial objective...
Author website: Patchwork Publishing, LLC
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