If you know anything about my previous work you know that 'why?' is my favorite question.

So, when I was asked recently about why I wrote Trouble Comes in Threes the way I did my answer was the same as it's been since I wrote it about how it was born from the COVID pandemic in short form on a writing prompt group and then readers wanted me to keep going and publish them etc.
But then I thought about that question, and it occurred to me that the why of it was really something different.

There has, for some time now, been a trend in mystery/thriller writing to write about both the antagonist as well as the protagonist and there's nothing wrong with that. I love those books, and yet...

Sometimes, I would find myself so engrossed in what was happening with the good guys I would get annoyed by having to read about everyone else. I get it, it builds suspense and creates more fomo but I would really get frustrated sometimes to the point of feeling like I was skimming the next section just so I could get back to what happens next with the characters I cared most about.

It occurred to me that it wasn't always like that. Go back to Sir Author Conan Doyle and Sherlock Homes and you find the one perspective approach. The story, as told through Dr. Watson but mostly involving he and Mr. Holmes and that was it.

This book (Trouble Comes in Threes) simply by the nature of how it was written, forced me to keep the perspective singular (or pretty close to it). Thus, it's a book about the character(s) you care about and what happens to them. There are not 'other' storylines with other characters who may or may not mean anything to the story and you don't get the 'bad guys' perspective. You follow along as the good guys go about trying to solve their cases.

Again, I mean no disrespect to the current approach of writers and I in no way am saying that those books are not enjoyable because they absolutely are.

This was just my why. Why I wrote the stories in the format that I did.
I wanted to harken back to earlier days of writing when you just got the meat and no chaff as it were.

Hopefully you'll enjoy reading it. I'd love to know your thoughts after you do.