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Who's the Most Guilty Person in Your Story? Hero, Victim, and Villain - Part 2

Story Grid Writing Podcast

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The Importance of Hierarchy in Crime Stories

In cozy mystery, you're going to have more people breaking norms than you are breaking laws and codes. In a story like the pattern scene at McBane, everybody's engaging in a certain level of corruption. To me, that's moving it toward everybody's breaking the law, or at least bending it a little bit.

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