Another sage interview

I was reminded that I did an interview a couple of years ago about revising a mystery. I commented particularly on my pet peeve, which is unbelievable characters and especially unrealistic dialogue, which is a plague upon the world of fiction. Authors simply must have their characters talking like the people they are in their time and their demographic, otherwise no reader is going for your story.
Read on:
http://www.creative-writing-now.com/writing-a-mystery.html