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Goodreads asked Craig A. Monson:

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

Craig A. Monson Back in the 1980s I stumbled upon a brief archival reference to the two prostitutes-turned-nuns' flight from the convent and subsequent murder. Thirty years later, while surfing the Web, I ran across a reference to an investigation of the case, ordered by Pope Innocent X in 1645. I flew to Rome, tracked down the transcript (2000+ pages), and decided it was too interesting not to write about.

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