Minor Gift: A Free Chapter

New Year’s Day is a good time to start the year off right by sharing with others, and so I’m sharing a chapter from my book, Guide to Writing the Mystery Novel: Lots of Examples, Plus Dead Bodies. In 2014 I shared both Chapter 9, “Summary, Scene, and Conflict” and Chapter 10, “Subplots,” and now I’m sharing Chapter 5, “Minor Characters.” (At this rate you can read the entire book for free . . . over the next twentyyears.)

5 Minor Characters

Novels contain minor characters as well as major o...