The converted Trolley Track Trail meanders through Brookside. My stories take place in Brookside, a quaint neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri. Readers learn to know the town as well as the characters. A cozy mystery takes place in an intimate village, town, or neighborhood that is visited throughout each story in a series. Details about the sleuth’s profession or hobby become part of the story (newspaper reporter, baker, librarian, house builder, knitter, bookstore owner, etc.) Beth is a landlady with rental properties that become crime scenes. Sure enough, the definition of a cozy fit my most beloved mysteries.īesides being G or PG rated, cozies often have an amateur sleuth, like Beth Stockwell, the protagonist in my Psycho Cat and the Landlady Mystery series. A revelation-I could write a cozy mystery, or a cozy. It was then I dug deeper into the varieties of mysteries. It sounded unnecessary and even distracting. I struggled to include some gratuitous sex and violence in my otherwise strategy and clue-driven first mystery. Until-people started telling me I needed to include sex scenes and gory details of the murders in my stories to appeal to today’s readers. That there are sub-genres within the mystery genre didn’t give me pause. Agatha Christie, Lilian Jackson Braun, Nancy Pickard, Nora Roberts, John Grisham, Diane Mott Davidson, Carl Hiaasen, Tony Hillerman, and on and on.
Mysteries have always been one of my favorite genres. I started writing my first mystery at a workshop. See the Privacy Policy tab for more info.Īll reblogged content, including images, remains protected by original blogger’s copyright and the organization named in the image.What, no detailed violence or bloodshed in my mystery-in this day of Mission Impossible XIV (or whatever number they’re up to) and CSI morgues in living color? And what about including a hint of romance rather than steamy, explicit sex scenes? Would anyone read it? Shades of Gray was made into a movie, for heaven’s sake. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express written permission from this blog’s owner is strictly prohibited. You are welcome to share excerpts and links as long as full credit is given to Susan Holmes and with appropriate and specific direction and links to the original content. All creative works copyright © Susan Holmes, 2013-2023. Unless otherwise specified, all content on this site is copyright protected.
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