Goodreads asked A.K. Madison:

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

A.K. Madison I cannot tell a lie. I stole the idea and the title from a short story by Roald Dahl that was made into a TV drama by Alfred Hitchcock. It's called "Lamb to the Slaughter." In relates the story of a police officer who's running around on his wife and asks her for a divorce. She's incensed and hits him over the head with a frozen leg of lamb. She then roasts it and serves it to the officers who have come to investigate the murder.

I was inspired by this to have Mrs. Reynolds bash Icky Wicky over the head with a Virginia ham which she is preparing for Darcy and Elizabeth's wedding reception. I should be ashamed of myself, but I'm having an awful lot of fun writing it. So much more creative than a baseball bat.

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