Goodreads asked Sam Reaves:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Sam Reaves The question is interesting. I have to say that I've been fortunate in not having a lot of serious personal drama in my life that might provide material for a crime novel. The closest I've come to using an incident from my own life was when I heard of the suicide of a high school classmate and subsequently heard that there were suspicions that it might actually have been a murder, with the suicide staged. I never heard any details, but the idea alone sparked the plot of my first novel, A Long Cold Fall.

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