(My guest today is Marilyn Meredith, a prolific writer of good mysteries. The floor is yours, Marilyn.
Two of
my friends won a contest on my last blog tour to be characters in my next Rocky
Bluff P.D. mystery. Both wanted to be villains. What exactly to write to fit
them in wasn’t easy, but was part of the planning for the plot.
Because
Rocky Bluff P.D. has a low, low budget which doesn’t make it easy for the
detectives working any case, I thought about bringing in the city council
members who make the budget decisions. Who were they and why were they so
stingy with the police department?
From
there I created the council members and who each of them were. And as I was
thinking about them, ideas began to bombard me. Which one should I kill off and
why? Who would want to be rid of this person and why?
As the
characters developed I decided to throw in a little romance for the new police
chief, Chandra Taylor.
And of
course, I had to bring my readers up to date on what was happening in the
ongoing characters’ lives. Always a fun part to write in this series.
I’m not
an outliner, but as I write new ideas occur to me and I do jot them down so I
don’t forget.
This is
more or less how this book came about.
F.M.
Meredith aka Marilyn
Blurb
for Unresolved:
Rocky
Bluff P.D. is underpaid and understaffed and when two dead bodies turn up, the
department is stretched to the limit. The mayor is the first body discovered,
the second an older woman whose death is caused in a bizarre manner. Because no
one liked the mayor, including his estranged wife and the members of the city
council, the suspects are many, but each one has an alibi.
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Bio: F. M. Meredith
lived for many years in a small beach community much like Rocky Bluff. She has
many relatives and friends who are in law enforcement and share their
experiences and expertise with her. She taught writing for Writers Digest
Schools for 10 years, and was an instructor at the prestigious Maui Writers
Retreat, and has taught at many writers’ conferences. Marilyn is a member of
three chapters of Sisters in Crime ,
Mystery Writers of America, and serves on the board of the Public Safety
Writers of America. She lives in the foothills of the Sierra. Visit her at http://fictionforyou.com
and her blog at http://marilymeredith.blogspot.com/
