Goodreads asked Jeannette Batz Cooperman:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Jeannette Batz Cooperman Such a great question! of course, if my life were juicier, I might not need to read and write mysteries...But a few years back, when we lived in a sweet little 1940s gingerbread house, there were some shady goings-on down the street--turned out the guy was running a call-girl ring. And in my day job as a reporter I once interviewed a dominatrix who lived in a Victorian house in the suburbs. With geranium window boxes and a dungeon in the basement. I kept wondering about the tiny signs, the process of neighbors gradually noticing and piecing things together, the possibilities for spying and blackmail or crazy outrage. The juxtapositions are interesting. Even when you're standing in the sunlight, there's darkness you can't see...

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