Around the age of 10, I started reading mystery novels. Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason were suddenly two of my closest friends. Rex Stout once claimed that the Perry Mason books weren't even novels, but at age 10, who knew?
Over the years, I graduated to more fast-paced novels, some called Thrillers, but my heart always remained with the classic Mystery. There are rules to writing a mystery; though some are, in the words used by Captain Jack Sparrow's deckhand to describe the pirate's code, "more guidelines."
Perry Mason novels always contained a confession. Here is mine: I haven't yet read Raquel Byrnes' new novel, Purple Knot. But after reading the first line of her synopsis at Amazon, I was hooked:
A killer strikes. A love rekindled. A life-altering choice.
Purple Knot at Amazon.com
Raquel is holding a contest right now to give away a copy of Purple Knot. I entered for a chance to win. You too can enter today by clicking on this article's title above: Purple Knot (Shades of Hope).
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