Cry Wolf is a murder mystery about a young lawyer who has fled her job and life in Georgia after losing a career shattering case.. Laurael Chandler has returned to her Louisian Bayou roots to regroup, only to find that a killer has taken to murdering young women of questionable reputations. Laurel is confronted by Jack Boudreax, an ex-lawyer turned fiction writer. She and Jack are thrust into a heated affair.
After Laurel's own sister is missing, she begins to question odd trinkets that have been placed for her to find. It's as if the killer is beckoning her to find him. Jack is, of course, suspect number one, because whomever has killed the young women in this small town and adjacent towns decided to use Jack's murder scenes as a model for his own. Now Laurel has to prove Jack's innocence while she searches for justice. | ||
Plot & Themes Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear) How difficult to spot villain? - Difficult, but some clues given Time/era of story: What % of story relates directly to the mystery, not the subplot? - 30% Murder of certain profession? Misc. Murder Plotlets - character killed during/after sexing - Big focus on forensic evidence Kind of investigator Any non-mystery subplot? descript. of violence and chases - 10 % Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20 % Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 60 % How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10 % Crime Thriller Yes Crime plotlets: Murder Mystery (killer unknown) Yes General Crime (including known murderer) Yes If story PRIMARILY about main chr. being hunted... - hunted by killer/stalker Is Romance a MAJOR (25%+) part of story? Yes Main Character Gender - Female Profession/status: Age: - 20's-30's Ethnicity/Race Main Adversary Identity: - Male Age: - 20's-30's Profession/status: Motive of antagonist - power The antagonists are: - lawyer creatures How sensitive is this character? Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters Setting United States Yes Forest? Yes Water? Yes Water: - sail boat - drowning Small town? Yes Small town people: - dumb rednecks, like Gomer Pyle Misc setting - fancy mansion Writing Style Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths Explicit sex in book? Yes What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - licking - actual description of sex - descript. of breasts - descript. of other female areas - descript. of male nudity - rape (yeech!) Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog |