Goodreads asked Sarah Osborne:

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

Sarah Osborne This is such a good question and I've been racking my brains to figure out how Ditie emerged. I'd written a couple of mysteries, unpublished, about a psychiatrist and her sister who traveled to B&Bs and found trouble. I thought maybe I needed a younger protagonist and one who wasn't quite so closely connected with the work I do. I settled on a pediatrician and got the details I needed from a pediatrician friend of mine. I'd also just moved away from Atlanta, so perhaps I was anxious to stay in touch with the city in which I'd lived for many years. In any case, Ditie popped up and seemed to bring the story with her. Her sidekick Lurleen was actually a character a friend used in her art--she bestowed her to me, and I ran with her.

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