All fiction has setups and payoffs, but mysteries tend to depend on those more than most other kinds of genre fiction. To get a good feel for this genre, you need to read books from the mystery genre. A good starting point are the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories, especially The...
It's I love it when I'm tying up loose ends and paying off major plot points! Anyway, here's the next installment of Villainess, Retry! It's coming along swell, and there's a BIG surprise in it! Enjoy, folks!
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