Goodreads asked Fiona MacBain:

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

Fiona MacBain Glasdrum is a dark-humoured thriller set near my hometown of Fort William in the Scottish Highlands. I wanted to write a story that had strong female protagonists and show them juggling their daily lives and relationships while trying to solve the mystery of a skeleton they find in one of their gardens. At the same time, there are rumours of a serial killer pushing lone hill-walkers off mountains – this idea came to while walking with my teenaged daughter on Britain’s second highest peak, Ben MacDui , near Aviemore, on a quiet, misty path that had a sharp drop beside it. We were followed for some time by a hooded man who was making us nervous and in my imagination he became a mountain murderer. He wasn’t, of course, he was an 80-year old man who was following us because he was worried about getting lost in the mist! But an idea was planted…

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