by Barry Knister, @barryknister
When I first decided to write a mystery series, the initial problem I faced didn’t have to do with writing. It had to do with the crime business.
I’m not talking about the myriad ways in which crime is the business of criminals; I mean the crime-fighting experts who zigzag their way through a landscape littered with clues, in search of answers. We all know who the usual suspects are: police and CSI technicians, private investigators, FBI and CIA agents, medical examiners, lawyers, computer whizzes, etc.
But what if the writer is none of these things, and has no connections with such people? Continue reading