If you’ve been following my work for a while, you may already know that Frank Leland wasn’t originally supposed to be the star of this series. He began as a secondary character in an early draft of THE BETRAYAL OF DANNY PRYOR.

But Frank had other ideas...

Most detectives fall for a femme fatale or lean on a love interest to humanize them. In this post, I show how I flipped that classic noir trope — and gave Frank Leland a very different kind of B plot to expose his vulnerability even more intensely.