investigation stories (and novels). The type of story I'm aiming for is in the vein

I have been working on exactly the same problem. What I've found so far are below. I've only just got these books, so I can't tell you how good they are apart from first impressions, but here goes:

1) The Weekend Novelist Writes a Mystery

Which is a step-by-step program to help you develop your characters, your murder, your plot and everything else. Looks fantastic and seems interesting so far

2) How to Write a Damn Good Mystery

I read his How to Write a Damn Good Novel which was awesome - so I figure this will be a good one to work with too.

3) Plotting the Mystery novel

Which is an online description of the classic 12-chapter Mystery-novel formula.

4) Plot & Structure

which is about plotting in general and helped me figure out what was important to make a good plot.

Anyway - those are my recommendations. Good luck

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