Goodreads asked Nev March:

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

Nev March Woo Hoo! I'm a week away from finishing the first draft of the sequel to Murder in Old Bombay!

The idea for my sequel came to me when I attended the Parliament of World Religions in 2018, a delegate of the miniscule Zoroastrian religion. I learned that the First POWR was held in 1893 during Chicago World's Fair.

The US population then was about 60 million. Over six months, 27 million people visited Chicago to see the World's Fair. That's almost HALF the country!
It was in this Chicago parliament that America first heard the visionary Hindu orator Swami Vivekananda speak. This, then was a pivotal moment in human history, the beginning of something marvelous: people of different cultures and faiths reaching out to understand each other. I knew this watershed moment had such potential ... but working out the deadly plot was tough. It took me 15 months :)

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