May
May asked Amy Stewart:

I have thoroughly enjoyed the Kopp sisters. I also appreciate the context of time and place you weave into the stories!! How much research do you do?

Amy Stewart Thanks so much! I do a ton of research, including lots of newspaper archives, courthouse records, interviews with family members, going around and actually visiting places where the events happened (I even got inside the jail where Constance worked and Sheriff Heath both worked and lived), and I try to read lots of magazines and books written at the time, so I'm getting a sense of events as they happened and not filtered through 100 years of history. I even go through old Sears catalogs to pick out the shoes they wear--it might not be obvious on every page, but anytime they touch any sort of object, I've figured out what that object looks like and where it came from!

There's more about this in the back of every book, and in the author Q&As I post at:

www.amystewart.com/bookclubs

Thanks so much! Book #3 coming in September--MISS KOPP'S MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONS.

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