True crime books should be suspenseful. It's easier to create complete suspense in fiction, but it's still possible to hold back the denouement of a real case for a few hundred pages. It's always a temptation for new writers to give the whole thing away in the first chapter, leaning very heavily on verbatim on police files. If you do that, your book will sound stilted and will go downhill rather than building tension.
Ann Rule (Ann Rule passed away in July 2015. She was 85 and the bestselling true crime writer in America.)
Ann Rule (Ann Rule passed away in July 2015. She was 85 and the bestselling true crime writer in America.)
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