The First Two Pages

Every Tuesday, a mystery writer explains how he or she faced the challenges of those brutally difficult–and vitally important–first two pages.

The First Two Pages of Get Me to the Grave on Time

D.E. Ireland First of all, thanks to B.K. Stevens for offering us a spot on this blog. Analyzing the beginning…

Shelley Costa Early on, while A KILLER’S GUIDE TO GOOD WORKS (Henery Press, September 2016), was a WIP, the Prologue…

Nancy Boyarsky “The Swap” is a mystery in the Hitchcockian genre of the innocent abroad, the naïve traveler who accidentally…

Christina Hoag The opening of a book has to accomplish many objectives, the chief one being to hook the reader…