BONES IN THE ATTIC--Fact or fiction
Readers often ask me how much is true that I put in my books. To be perfectly honest, a lot that has happened in my life or to people I know turns up in one book or another but significantly changed. The true event is often what trigger the idea for the plot. For instance, in Bones in the Attic the main plot is about bones found in a trunk in an attic and the question is was the person the skeleton belongs to murdered? I can't tell you much about the skeleton as too much of the plot is based on something that happened to a friend of mine, and when she told me, believe me, I was surprised and a bit shocked by her revelation. Another body in the story is based on a true happening where I live, in fact only two doors away. We live out in the country so our homes are separated much more than they would be in the city. Also where we live we has a definite fire season which extends from summer far into fall and the first rains, and it's the same over on ...