Recently a friend was reading a book, which shall remain nameless, and when she finished, she wanted to throw the book across the room. Why, you ask? Because the ending made absolutely no sense.
The author spent the whole book having the hero search for the person who attacked him, only to have the attacker be someone the hero paid to do it.
That got me to thinking and I came up with 5 plot devices readers hate (at least this reader).
1. The villain turns out to be someone’s evil secret twin no one knew about.
2. At the end of the book, everything turns out to be a dream.
3. The hero uses a ‘hidden’ talent that has never been mentioned.
4. The cavalry swoops in and saves the day.
5. Having your heroine be TSTL (too stupid to live). You know, a serial killer is on the loose and she sees something in the woods outside her cabin...
Now it’s your turn. What do you wish authors would not do?
One more thing…September 5, Justice Buried, the second book in my Memphis Cold Case Novels releases! Here’s the back cover copy: In an effort to get her security consulting business off the ground, Kelsey Allen has been spending a lot of time up in the air, rappelling down buildings and climbing through windows to show business owners their vulnerabilities to thieves. When she is hired to pose as a conservator at the Pink Palace Museum in order to test their security weaknesses after some artifacts go missing, she's ecstatic.
But when her investigative focus turns from theft to murder, Kelsey knows she's out of her league--and possibly in the cross hairs. When blast-from-the-past Detective Brad Hollister is called in to investigate, Kelsey may find that he's the biggest security threat yet . . . to her heart.
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