Kind of excited to make my first post.
So, my question concerns point of view in a crime fiction story. I have an outline for a crime fiction story set in a fictional island country in the 1950s, and there are four main characters; an unscrupulous property broker, a private investigator, a shady businessman and a corrupt police detective. So, with the way I planned it, the story will switch between their perspectives, and end on the P.I. because the other three will be dead by the end of the story.
Problem is, though, that I'm not sure how I'll do the perspectives. I could go for first person present, like in my current mystery series which follows one character, or I could use third person present. Perhaps I should use past tense instead, but I tend to gravitate towards present tense.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
So, my question concerns point of view in a crime fiction story. I have an outline for a crime fiction story set in a fictional island country in the 1950s, and there are four main characters; an unscrupulous property broker, a private investigator, a shady businessman and a corrupt police detective. So, with the way I planned it, the story will switch between their perspectives, and end on the P.I. because the other three will be dead by the end of the story.
Problem is, though, that I'm not sure how I'll do the perspectives. I could go for first person present, like in my current mystery series which follows one character, or I could use third person present. Perhaps I should use past tense instead, but I tend to gravitate towards present tense.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.