Mystery/Thriller readers and writers -- Report in!

To all fellow writers, and novelist's!

I recently changed publishing houses and to my discontent I was informed I would not be able to keep my previous cover art of my mystery novel, it's still posted on amazon.com and barnes and noble by the way. So, what have we learned?
Make sure you own the copyrights to your manuscript and your COVER as well!
A new cover and ISBN have been created and the Book is available exclusively through me for now, until further negotiations are settled.
Stand up for your rights, you wrote the darn thing!

Just my five cents, lol...

Petra

Hi Petra,

Hi and happy new year to everyone else too. Petra, I'm glad to hear about your mystery series. I'm a lover of full-scale thriller books myself. I wasn't ever able to get the full amount of enjoyment out of the mystery novel. But, that said, I understand perfectly well that there are fans of mystery novels who'll do anything to get one!

I found that the quickest way to locate your book on writing.com was to search for Parker under the subject category Mystery. You came straight up.
http://www.writing.co...

Congratulations on all your books. It'll be good to swing by from time to time and find out all your good news.

On the subject of good news, my International Big Oil Thriller,
http://www.bookscape....
The Expendability Doctrine, by Patrick Mackeown,
ISBN 0955432804

Just got a Highly Recommended, Five Star Book Review!

I'm dead excited.

I'll catch up with you later,

Patrick

I love, love, LOVE mysteries! :)

I love, love, LOVE mysteries! :)

Mysteries follow Agatha Christi and Margery Allingham. I guess they follow Sherlock Holmes as well.

What do you love about them? The puzzle? Solving the mystery before the final page? The clues? They have well-known meanings. The vicious, wealthy father who's always putting his son down in public. The gossiping women. The jilted lover, etc, etc.

Readers, and TV watchers today are able to recognise these stereotypical characters straight away now. Is that what you enjoy?

I've noticed that in TV drama now, writers have begun to take mystery writing techniques and put them into more and more challenging stories. At the moment on UK TV, there is a story which is using the war in Iraq, and the conflict in Sudan (Darfor) to create a mystery story-line based in the heart of London!

That's a challenge. Oh, and to make it even harder, they're using the history of a 19th Century, Sudanese Islamic warrior chieftain as a backdrop.

Now, that's what I call a challenging story!

They're not making too bad a job of it, either!