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Via Vulture: How to Write a Red Herring
French has published seven mysteries.
This strikes me as an interesting discussion by one author of her process.
What do you think?
French has published seven mysteries.
She’s famously good at a particularly eerie brand of red herring — that alluring detail that seems like the key to solving the crime, only to prove a clever bit of misdirection. . . . French’s red herrings are not just shiny lures but windows into her protagonists’ deepest fears and flaws. Here, she walks us through how she lays the tracks, starting with the red-herring masters she admires.
This strikes me as an interesting discussion by one author of her process.
What do you think?