Topic: Mystery




Topic Propsal: I plan on writting about mystery and focusing on a specific book. Im going to explain what makes a good mystery book and how this book is a good example of a mystery book. The specific book im going to focus on is, Homicide. Homicide My Own resides in that strange and fascinating land between mystery fiction and detective fiction. It's a story of two cops from Spokane, Washington, who are assigned a mission. They're to go to an Indian reservation on the Northwest coast and pick up a man who's being held for kidnapping a teenaged girl. One of the cops becomes obsessed with a decades-old murder, the only unsolved murder in the island's history, and he doesn't want to head back to Spokane until he's found some resolution. His partner, Quinn, the acid-tongued menopausal wife of a decent and boring pharmacist finds Odd's behavior rather amusing at first, but then finds it to be much more than amusing. Anne Argula wrote this book which makes most readers look at life and death in a new and uncharacteristic way.


thesis: The essential part of a good mystery novel is suspense. A successful mystery writter, Anna Arugla, who wrote Homicide My Own is good example of a book that uses suspense.