From the author of The Kite Runner, a few words of sage advice. About clichés. Avoid them like the plague. –Khaled Hosseini
One of my favorite mystery authors since college is Sue Grafton. Her alphabet series (from A Is for Alibi to W Is for Wasted, so far) features a strong female protagonist named Kinsey Millhone working as a private investigator in Santa Teresa, a stand-in for Santa Barbara. Grafton weaves lots of personal history about Kinsey into her stories, […]