Elizabeth Breck writes: “As a licensed private investigator, I’ve followed people for days without them noticing me. But I wasn’t driving a red Ferrari with personalized plates—that would get me noticed in the first block. I became a PI in my 20’s, so my taste in authors in my favorite genre, mystery, soon became shaped by the realism of the PI’s activities. I thought you might like to see some of the authors who get it right every time, including an author whose books have actually made me a better PI.”