Jesse is right...a lot of times we do know the "who" and "how"...it's mostly seeing if the Mostly Good guys can stay ahead of the Mostly Bad guys.(because both sides usually have somebody who could fit in with the other crowd.) Look out for bad tippers and people that don't respect good music when they hear it...bad stuff happens to them. And Deb, you know I'm not doing that... not with an urban, noirish, feminist, "defective detective" novel with class issues and procedural overtones.
Buffy ,'Beneath You'
The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Heh. It's just a discussion I back out of the room for, these days, that classification thing. Not my deal.
I don't like that either...mostly because I suck at it. But I will say that GP can remind me style-wise of Lehane, but story-wise more like Elmore Leonard(who mostly doesn't whodunit either) "A Firing Offense" was, and should also be read by everyone who ever worked a crap retail job.
"A Firing Offense" was, and should also be read by everyone who ever worked a crap retail job.
Takes notes.
Part of what I liked about that book was the overwhelming tone of "When this is published, I'm so out of here!" that pervaded it. But I may be projecting... I do that, sometimes, being as how a good paragraph can be an occasion of sin sometimes and give me wicked crushes. And this really is "Pelecanos likes carrots." now. I should shut up.
Definitely liking the drabbles that this topic prompted. When I first saw it I kinda said, "huh." And then I wrote two. Huh.
ETA: Susan, good job! I hit post before I remembered to say that. Oops.
Which is the better story?
My retired detective and his disabled operative find out that their partner/father did not really commit suicide. but was murdered for some reason I'll have to determine.
Or
He did, but they find out something pivotal about some last case that might have been nagging at him at the time of his death?
erika, I like the second option better, esp. if your detectives were hoping to find out that the suicide was a murder but find the pivotal information instead.
How about they THINK it's suicide (and each feel guilty for their own reasons) for the first chunk of the book and so look into the nagging case--and then find out it was murder?
Erika, I like the second scenario better, but I think you should leave the question of whether or not he committed suicide unanswered until everything comes together at the end.