Goodreads asked Alice Vachss:

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

Alice Vachss You can't prosecute difficult cases effectively unless you are an investigator at heart. So in some sense, every case starts out a mystery. The ones that haunt me start with chronic, evil predators whose known crimes are just the tip of the iceberg. Finding the unknown crimes, and then being able to do something about them ... that's an ongoing plot, where lives are literally at stake.

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