First, to write a book that would carry the reader only partway across the bridge of the entire story. The more I considered the project, the more I realized that there were two significant ideas at work. And I wrestled with how to write this project in a way that would fit neatly with readers’ expectations. I began to see a long story arc, one that, more and more, I realized would probably span two books. The comfort factor.īut does this always have to be the way? Can a mystery be satisfying even if it consciously doesn’t meet this powerful expectation? That was one of the questions-the biggest question, in fact-that I considered as the story of Mercy Falls formed in my thinking. It’s one of the reasons, probably, that they choose books in the genre. Second, never end a book without all the loose threads tied up, all the answers given, justice done, and the world set right again. You can be brutal to human beings, kill them in imaginative, excruciating ways, but an innocent little dog is off limits. Two things you never do in the crime genre.
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