Goodreads asked Stacy M. Jones:

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

Stacy M. Jones Years ago I moved for work from New York to Little Rock, Arkansas. It was such a drastic change in environment, people, way of life - pretty much everything. But I instantly fell in love with this little city. The one thing I grew to realize though, was although I was in the Bible-belt, there was an undercurrent of scandal. Gossip ran as fast as the sweat tea. Everyone knew everyone, especially in certain neighborhoods. Instead of six degrees of separation, it's more like two or three. I started thinking about how a New Yorker handles these kinds of relationships, since we are sometimes standoffish. I threw in some murder, a little mayhem and centered the story around a character who is familiar with the city, having lived there, but she has to come back to solve a mystery and face everything else she avoided when she left. I wanted the relationships to be as complex as the crime.

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