Goodreads asked Rosemary Reeve:

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

Rosemary Reeve "No Good Deed" feels ripped from today’s headlines – a police officer charged with shooting an unarmed man; racial tension; riots demanding accountability. But I wrote it more than 20 years ago.

I was looking for a nightmare scenario for my two main characters, Jack Hart and Harmony Piper, who are young civil litigators at a large law firm. I started to wonder how they would react if their best friend were charged with murder.

Jack’s and Harmony’s best friend is Mark Oden, a police officer who was a secondary character in “All Good Things.” As I considered possible reasons for a murder charge against Mark, there were two police shootings in the Seattle area.

In “No Good Deed,” I was trying to create a scenario that would be everyone’s worst nightmare. Tragically, more than twenty years later, it still is.

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