By Kevin S. Giles
I’ve read mysteries where the whodunit is truly glaring from early in the story, but I didn’t want to believe it was true.
I’ve read other mysteries that deceived me into thinking I had figured out the killer when the ending revealed it was somebody else.
And then those others, where the unfolding of the story is more of the reader reward than the surprise ending.
Good mystery fiction mirrors real life. We humans are capable of entangling ourselves in countless predicaments. Headlines prove that every day.