What does it take to write a police procedural?

With Frédérique Molay’sThe 7th Woman coming out in paperback this month, we talked to her about what it takes to write a police procedural.The 7th Woman is the start of a series of gritty mysteries set in Paris, with lots of police procedure and forensics, a kind of FrenchCSI Paris. The second in the series,Crossing the Line,is in the works.

Frédérique Molay, “the French Michael Connelly”

What led you to be a writer?

I started writing when I was eleven years old. By that time, I was already pass...