Mystery Mondays: Will Macmillan Jones on What Makes a Mystery Successful

Check out this great post from author Will Macmillan on what makes a mystery successful from Kristina Stanley’s blog.

Welcome to this week’s edition of Mystery Mondays. This week, author Will Macmillan Jones is here. You can probably tell by the cover, Demon’s Reach – 5th in the series – falls under the horror category.

Demon’s Reach will be released Oct, 20 2017 but you can pre-order now. Congratulation, Will!

The first in the series is The Showing.

Will is shares his journey in writing and along the way gives us his take on a successful mystery.

What makes a Mystery Successful

By Will Macmillan Jones

Come on admit it: we all love a mystery. There’s the challenge of trying to outguess the author by picking up clues too early*; the sneaky pleasure of realising that you were right all along where other readers would have failed to identify the killer so soon – more commonly achieved on the second or third reading of a book, in my…

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