Goodreads asked Tracy L. Ward:

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

Tracy L. Ward My forth coming book, Sweet Asylum, the fourth in the Peter Ainsley mystery series, started as a novella. I wanted to write something to feature Margaret and the Marshall family's country home, The Briar. During the planning stages my story evolved into something much bigger. I just couldn't do it justice and keep it to 25,000 words. In many ways, writing Sweet Asylum has been like writing Chorus of the Dead. Rather than writing about urban life in Victorian London, I am highlighting country life in Kent. It's as if the series has returned to it's rural roots.

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