Crime Thriller

Create Tough Guy Detectives and Femmes Fatales

The crime thriller first became popular in the 1930s and has been a best-selling genre ever since. Readers and viewers love stories about private investigators, police detectives, forensic pathologists, serial killers, gangsters, conmen and thieves.

To write a crime thriller you need to know the conventions of the genre – what elements people expect to find and what plot structure you should use. In this book you will find analyses and templates to write novels or screenplays featuring:

Private Detectives Gangsters and Gun Molls Police Procedures Forensic Investigation Serial Killers Undercover Cops Burglars Thieves Confidence Tricksters Film Noir Romance Prisoners, Vigilantes Enforcers

In these pages you will also learn the secrets of the buddy cop story and details about informants, interrogating suspects, surveillance stake-outs, conducting missing person and murder investigations, and how to write a car chase.