Endings. What Works For You?

Endings. What Works For You?

They say your first page sells your book. Your last page sells the next book. But what constitutes an ending that makes readers want more without making them feel coerced? Or cheated?

I recently finished a mystery that, while it had some things I don’t care for—the ‘anonymous villain POV scenes’ and too many names that started with the same letter—they weren’t enough for me to stop reading.

The main protagonist, a medical examiner, was decently flawed. She’d been thr...