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Tell Again Tuesday Tips for Writing Crime Novels

April 6, 2021 by C.D. Hersh

Tell Again Tuesday

A blog series where we shamelessly share posts from others that we have enjoyed.

 


 

Theft Between the Rains

By Luba Lesychyn

When I set out to write my first book, Theft By Chocolate, I honestly wasn’t sure in what genre it would fall. I knew I wanted to set it in the place where I worked, which was an internationally renowned museum (specifically, Canada’s largest, the Royal Ontario Museum) and that my capricious lead character’s distinguishing trait would be that she was a chocolate addict and her hunting and foraging for chocolate would continually get her into trouble. So, these elements didn’t initially spell out ‘crime fiction.’

As it turns out, it wasn’t until my third draft that I had a serendipitous encounter with . . .

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