Goodreads asked Nancy Schumann:

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

Nancy Schumann My latest book "Kaffeeduft in London" (only available in German at present) is a crime story. I love crime stories. I've always loved Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple. So I suppose at some point I had to write one of my own, even though that is not my usual genre to write in. So the story didn't start as a crime story. I started by writing out some thoughts about the world around me, about my experience of growing up in a communist country. At that point I had no idea where that going. Then I had a bit of an issue with a publisher that caused a lot of stress and hassle to me and a number of people helping me with that issue. At the point when we had all done about as much as we could, things were semi-under control and the stress just turned to hysterical laughter, my other half started joking that I should write a story in which a publisher gets killed. After some jokes, I put the two together and said to myself I can do something with that. Admittedly JK got there before me; I'm not that quick a writer.

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