Mystery Musings (Pt2)
When we add romance to the mix, we have to increase the emotional components. (That’s why those hardboiled “dicks” never have real relationships: too icky for their manly readers who really want their cowboy myth updated.) In a romantic detective story, the romance has to be intricately involved with the detection in some way: perhaps the love interest knew the victim or knows one or more of the suspects; perhaps the love interest is an intended target; perhaps the love interest causes the detective to question the value of putting…