The First Two Pages

Every Tuesday, a mystery writer explains how he or she faced the challenges of those brutally difficult–and vitally important–first two pages.

The First Two Pages of A Sporting Murder: Character and Plot

Lesley A. Diehl The first two pages of the third book in the Eve Apple mysteries (Camel Press, Publisher), winner…

Lise McClendon The first two pages of my latest novel, The Things We Said Today, are not the original beginning.…

Helen Dunn Frame What does a mother do when she outlived her only son and an elderly Greek friend insisted…

Nancy Jarvis Two pages isn’t much space to fill readers in when they start reading a later-in-the-series book cold without…