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improve your techniques
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Teach Yourself Writing Crime Fiction encourages you to explore the ideas you already have, and gets you working step by step on your own work.

This book analyses the elements of the broad crime fiction genre, covering the classic detective story, the espionage thriller, comic crime fiction, romantic suspense, the feminist sleuth and more. The author guides you through the process of crafting your material:

- recognising an idea for a novel
- setting the scene
- shaping your characters
- evolving plot
- researching your background
- maintaining style and using literary techniques
- finding a way out if you get stuck!

Lesley Grant-Adamson, the author, has published eleven novels and has taught creative writing at university level, as well as for writers' groups, residential courses and prisons - both in the UK and overseas.