Hello Mystery Writers Forum from Anie,
I am new here. This is my first post. I'd like to hear your thoughts about the novel I'm working on. My novel is an amateur sleuth humorous style murder mystery.
Think of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series, Laura Levine's Jaine Austen series, Kyra Davis' Sophie Katz series.(1)I'm looking for a critique group. What's the best way to find other murder mystery writers seeking critiquers?
(2) I got feedback from an agent who advised me to "foreground" my murder. The murder to my mystery doesn't happen until the 8th chapter.
She advised to either do a prologue or something at the very beginning. I hear some folks say they don't care for prologues but I still see
prologue coming up in mysteries and I certainly read them.
So, I wanted to do the prologue from a different POV. The chapters are all first-person PoV. I was thinking of doing the prologue in a third-person omniscient PoV. What do you think?
I rarely see 3rd person omniscient these days. I prefer first person PoV when it comes to amateur sleuth. I also like 1st-POV-past tense.
Anie