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Guest Blogger Kara Lennox on Planting Clues

By Sarena Straus, Esq.

Planting Clues by Kara LennoxOne of my favorite parts of plotting a romantic suspense book is planting the clues that will lead my hero and/or heroine to eventually figure out who the villain is. The trick is to plant the clue in plain sight, but disguise it somehow so the reader doesn?t easily guess what it means. Often, it?s a chance bit of dialogue, something offhand that a reader tends to skim because there is something more interesting going on.Sometimes, the hero or heroine is in a unique position to spot an inconsistency that the police don?t see. For example, in my first Project Justice book, Taken to the Edge, the unjustly convicted man had bought a half-pepperoni, half-black-olive pizza. It was written up in the police report the night the crime was committed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Prosecutor Postscript on March 05, 2012 (boomark / email).