This Group is dedicated to all aspects of crime fiction, both reading and writing.

So if you have a favourite book, author, write a lens on it.

If you are a published crime author, submit a lens about yourself and your work.

 

If you're unpublished, why not submit a chapter. We'd all like to see it. Perhaps we might have a competition who knows?

Welcome to the Crime Fiction Group.

Submission guidelines.

Welcome Margaret and Kim. Great Lenses.
Welcome Angela. Great writing ideas. with 'Fire under your butt.'

Submitting.

Lenses should be on topic and contain information that will interest other squidooers.

No biz op scams or referal schemes.

Thanks.

John.

Writing advice

Lenses on how to write good cime fiction, how to get an agent and how to get published.

featured lens Writing crime fiction

Crime fiction is still one of the fastest selling genres in the world today.  Believe it or not, writing crime fiction is not too difficult.  There is a formula and this lens will explain how to get started.

featured lens Writing characters in fiction

  Character descriptions can either mske or break your writing, be it short story or novel.   Here are a few tips to get you writing characters that are less wooden. 

featured lens Writing a crime fiction plot.

One of the hardest things for a crime writer to do is to write a credible plot. This lens will help get you thinking. 

featured lens Fire Under Your Butt -- Inspiration for Writers

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. —Henry David Thoreau

Unpublished works

Give us a snippet of you new novel.

Put your novel on the net. Add a comments box and see what others have to say about your writing.

featured lens Tracks of Blood

I'm in the process of writing a crime novel.  I thought I'd throw it out to all you squidoers to see what you think.  This is the first draft so please excuse the typo's.... Brief synopsis. Lorraine and Steve are about to get embroiled in mur...

Published fiction

Got a favourite crime author? Make a lens and stick it here.

featured lens Robert Crais

Robert is known primarily for his Series of Elvis Cole (yep, named after the King) novels, which are listed in order below. The series first introduces us to Elvis in Monkey's Raincoat, a wisecracking detective who always seems to do the right thing...

featured lens Joyce Krieg's Talk Radio Mysteries

Shauna J. Bogart made her debut in Murder Off Mike, which won the Malice Domestic contest for the best first traditional mystery.

featured lens Andrew Vachss

Andrew Vachss is not especially well known, in the celebrity sense. Yet he is an important, influential and even heroic man in the best sense of the word. Some know him as a top-notch crime writer, others as a lawyer, others as someone who works with...

featured lens Patricia Cornwell: The Original Crime Scene Investigation Expert

When Patricia Cornwell introduced Postmortem in 1990, she launched one of the most eagerly anticipated series in the history of crime fiction. She is best known for creating the chief medical examiner character, Dr. Kay Scarpetta, popular well before...

featured lens Stephen Booth

I just love the series of Books set in the Peak district of Derbyshire. They feature Ben Cooper and Diane Fry.  Cooper's father was a policeman killed in the line of Duty.  Fry has been transferred to Derbyshire Police after an incident earl...

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Crime writing resourses.

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