Writing a Mystery

Hi there!

I’m a fan of your books and I’ve always been curious how you plan a mystery. I would assume that you figure out the solution to the mystery first and then come up with clues leading to it, but in a lot of your books, like Notorious, what the characters figure out ends up not being the solution at all, with a different answer that wasn’t on the initial list of suspects. I’m just curious about what parts of the mystery get planned first and how the planning process looks.

Thanks,

Jack W.