Black is a beloved figure in mystery-writing circles for her Paris-set Aimée Leduc series- soon to reach volume No. Then they step back to see if what they’ve produced adds up to anything. They let it fly and hope that inspiration or some subtle sense of curiosity can pull them forward through the pages. Some authors meticulously map out and outline the plot and every other aspect of a project upfront others, like Cara Black, take a seat-of-the-pants approach. Plus, we need enough suspects to keep readers guessing, and when the villain is revealed, going back, the reader can say, ‘Ah, of course! This plays fair, and it’s plausible.’” Write Approach In mystery writing, we have to plant clues among the red herrings and work on the art of misdirection. “Just then, I knew that, of course, it was her. “The voice was an intuitive flash,” she says. Cara Black’s “I did it!” moment as she was working on Murder in Clichy, ultimately published in 2005, was a hair-raising example of the latter. “I have a top loader,” she explains, “so I was putting the clothes up in the dryer, and the killer spoke to me, saying, ‘I did it!’”Īs any writer knows, sometimes you write your books-and sometimes your books write you. Cara Black was at home in San Francisco late in 2003, attending to some household chores, well into writing the fifth installment of her bestselling Aimée Leduc murder mystery series, when an odd thing happened while she was doing the wash.
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