Goodreads asked Chris Miller:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Chris Miller The idea for 'A Murder of Saints' came from an event I witnessed in my teenage years. I was at a church my family attended in our small town, and there was a very well respected elder in the church who was found to be a pedophile. Then the fallout, a church split, bitterness and anger, people losing their faith, and so on. I even went to the first day of testimony in his trial and was so disgusted with what I heard I couldn't go back. Through the following years, this event stuck with me, and the "What if?" questions started sparking in my mind. It was only the leap-off point for my novel, but the questions it posed, what might have happened if x, y, or z had resulted from this awful event, turned into a nightmare story of which I'm very proud.

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