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The Tangled Web

Jane Kalmes
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A twice weekly newsletter for mystery writers: how to design clues, crimes, and plot twists for the mystery of your dreams.

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Latest Issues

Locked Room Murders: Solved!

Hello, friends! I’m on sabbatical for the next two weeks, working on some editing and publication tasks. New posts resume on August 25th, with the first chapters of my latest mystery writing resource: The Tangled Web: Thread-Spinning. In th...

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You Can Twist Any Plot With These Simple Principles

Hello, friends! I’m on sabbatical for the next two weeks, working on some editing and publication tasks. New posts resume on August 25th, with the first chapters of my latest mystery writing resource: The Tangled Web: Thread-Spinning. In th...

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The Tangled Web: Thread Spinning

The Tangled Web: Thread Spinning is the third installment in my series of mystery writing books. It is a resource that brings together a number of topics I’ve been wanting to talk about for a long time: series planning, scene development, c...

9 days ago

The Most Powerful Tool I Used When Writing Death Casts a Spell

Welcome back to Behind the Scenes! Since the final chapter of Death Casts a Spell published yesterday, today I’m sharing the complete Scene Index for the novel.

Read Death Casts a Spell, a Kitty Callahan mystery:

Of all my tools, the Scen...

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Death Casts a Spell, Final Chapter

I walked home, turning up my collar against the wind from a gathering storm. Something was gnawing at me. I’d solved the case. I’d caught the bad guy. But I still felt that there was something I hadn’t fully understood.

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