The One Backstory Every Mystery Writer Needs to Know
The relationship between the villain and the victim is the context of your mystery’s puzzle. It’s the primary backstory to create your story.
How to Work Backstory into Your Mystery
What Came Before Every character arrives in your story with backstory. Backstory is what came before in their lives before the story begins. Long ago or maybe just last week, something happened that impacted your character. In a mystery, you need to know the backstory of your sleuth and each of the suspects, including the…