Holly Jackson, the bestselling author of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder and most recently, The Reappearance of Rachel Price, walks us through her stepbystep process for writing pageturning mystery thrillers. Get out your notepads!

00:00 Intro
00:12 Where to Begin
00:52 The Plot
01:40 Structure
02:29 The Setting
03:10 Pacing
03:45 The Twist

Check out Holly's latest book, The Reappearance of Rachel Price:
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ABOUT THE REAPPEARANCE OF RACHEL PRICE

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of the multimillioncopy bestselling A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series and Five Survive comes a gripping mystery thriller following one teen’s search for the truth about her mother’s shocking disappearance—and even more shocking reappearance—during the filming of a true crime documentary.

Lights. Camera. Lies.

Eighteenyearold Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness, but she has no memory of it. Rachel is gone, long presumed dead, and Bel wishes everyone would just move on.

But the case is dredged up from the past when the Price family agrees to a true crime documentary. Bel can’t wait for filming to end, for life to go back to normal. And then the impossible happens. Rachel Price reappears, and life will never be normal again.

Rachel has an unbelievable story about what happened to her. Unbelievable, because Bel isn’t sure it’s real. If Rachel is lying, then where has she been all this time? And—could she be dangerous? With the cameras still rolling, Bel must uncover the truth about her mother, and find out why Rachel Price really came back from the dead . . .

From worldrenowned author Holly Jackson comes a mindblowing masterpiece about one girl’s search for the truth, and the terror in finding out who your family really is.




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