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Harry Bosch is an LAPD detective because Michael Connolly lives in the LA area. Inspector Rebus is an Edinburgh detective because Ian Rankin is from there. A lot of Geza Tatrallyay’s thriller Twisted Traffick takes place in Vienna; he doesn’t live there now, but he did (see the previous interview). My new book The Last Humans (to be published by Black Opal Books in 2019) is a post-apocalyptic thriller set in SoCal; I grew up there. Is the best way to come up with realistic settings to live in...