Table of Contents

1 Introduction 2 Different approaches and dealing with outlines 3 Settings and Issues 4 Characterisation and motivation 5 Dialogue 6 Backgrounds and specialist knowledge 7 Narrative Style and first paragraphs 8 Focus, suspect, clues and red herrings 9 Pace or the smoking gun 10 Denouements and endings 11 research

About the Author

Janet Laurence is the well known author of the Darina Lisle/William Pigram novels and the Canaletto and Ursula Grandison novels. She is also a cookery writer and has written a number of cookery titles.