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MYSTERIES, CRIME, & COMPELLING STORIES
LYNN BOHART
Mystery Author • Writing Mentor
• Mystery & Crime Enthusiast
Your trusted guide for writing believable mysteries.
"I write mysteries, talk to the people who know crime scene investigation from the inside out, and help writers create stories that keeps readers guessing."
THE NO ALIBI ZONE
Where solving crimes is serious business.
As a mystery writer, I craft diabolical murders. To be honest, though, I spend the bulk of my time figuring out how my characters will use their skill, intellect, and wit to catch the killers.
That’s mostly what we’ll explore here. What goes on behind the scenes when investigating the crime and murder. What do the professionals do? And how can we writers learn from their experience?
Let’s Talk About Murder (LTAM)—a bi-monthly online newsletter interviewing the people who talk about, write about, or investigate murder, including detectives, medical examiners/technicians, crime beat journalists, authors, podcasters, and more.
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The Murder Brief – occasionally, I include blog posts in the newsletter where I’ve researched topics of interest to mystery writers, including murder investigation techniques, what the body farm does, cadaver dogs, and identifying serial killers, or how writers continually turn something horrible into something entertaining.
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Mystery Writers' Corner - a section where I discuss things we've learned in the interviews, mistakes mystery writers make, ideas writers might use in their manuscripts, and potential exercises to clarify your writing.
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UPCOMING INTERVIEWS & BLOG POSTS
AUGUST: I'm taking August off to work on some other projects.
Sept. 1: Steve Brenneman, Chief Investigator, Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & People Cold Case Unit, Washington State
Sept 15: Second half, Interview with Steve Brenneman.
Oct. 1 "When Children Commit Murder," Blog Post
Oct. 15: Dr. Mary Jumblic, expert forensic pathologist, author and educator.
Nov. 1: Scott Crabtree, ret. FBI Investigator, Oklahoma City Bombing.
-----MYSTERIES YOU'LL LOVE----
Intriguing crimes. Unforgettable characters. A little humor. And dogs who don't miss a thing.
Old Maids of Mercer Island Series
Join Julia Applegate and her best friends in crime, a few whacky ghosts, a couple of miniature Dachshunds, and a wise-cracking parrot as you take a romp down mystery lane. Although these women are in their sixties, they can't let wrong win as they track down diabolical killers, save lives, and find justice for victims.
Detective Giorgio
Salvatori
Series
Giorgio 'Joe' Salvatori has always been good at puzzles, which helped him earn the rank of detective at the NYPD in record time. However, after being shot and losing his partner, he moves his family to a small town in California to get away from the dirt and crime of a big city just in time to solve multiple horrendous murders in succession.
Non-fiction
Books
Stand Alone
Novels
GRAVE DOUBTS
When Lee Vanderhaven's executive assistant dies from an apparent suicide, Lee launches her own investigation using the hospital where she works to answer questions, and gets herself into big trouble.
Go back in time to when Julia Applegate and her brother Ben (Old Maids of Mercer Island books) are teenagers. Set in 1965, before cell phones, the internet, or social media, 13-year-old Julia Brouwer and her 16-year-old genius brother Ben assemble a group of friends to expose a killer and bring him to justice.