What Makes A Good Mystery Novel. A complex story à la Gone Girl doesnt just pop out of a writers brain fully formed on a random Tuesday. Create chains of small revelations.

In a good mystery there is always an aha moment. Hay Professional Writer Lucy V. Subgenre is most easily defined as a smaller category inside a larger category.
Then the body is found.
Following trails alongside the protagonist trying to solve the clues before they do and finally seeing everything neatly fall together in the end. How to write mystery. Theres a fair play rule in mysteries. This book is not high literature.

