Showing posts with label whodunnit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label whodunnit. Show all posts

October 31, 2019

How to Plant Red Herrings in Crime Novels / Guest Post by Damyanti Biswas



Please help me to give Damyanti Biswas a BIG welcome. Her book YOU BENEATH YOUR SKIN has been making waves. I am honored to have her on my blog today.

Damyanti Biswas' Guest Post:

One of the joys of reading a mystery novel is trying to address a story question—who was the one who did it? I do not write traditional whodunits---my debut You Beneath Your Skin subverts the thriller genre—making of it a whydunnit. It helps though to have the structure of a page-turner, and that means red herrings.