Goodreads asked Suzanne J. Bratcher:

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

Suzanne J. Bratcher The Gold Doubloons was the third mystery in my Jerome Mysteries trilogy. Because Jerome was established as a mining town, I chose to name each book after one of the ores mined there. Copper was the most plentiful, so the first book was "The Copper Box." Silver was next, so book two was "The Silver Lode." Gold was third, so this book had to be "The Gold ?" A legend that still circulates in Jerome occasionally is that Coronado left a bag of gold doubloons in the hills around Jerome. What if Reed Harper and Scott Russell went searching for the precious coins and crossed paths with someone willing to commit murder to get them? I had my idea!

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