Goodreads asked Roddy Thorleifson:

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

Roddy Thorleifson I got the idea for Tim Curious from a history of New York City. It told of how, during the revolution, north of Manhattan Island, there was a region called the "Neutral Ground" where neither side had full control. Half its population was gone and those who remained lived in danger of raiders, spies and smugglers. I seemed the perfect setting for a murder mystery. Once I started doing research I was surprised how some things were so similar to today, and in others were so profoundly different.

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