Goodreads asked Don Weston:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Don Weston I was walking with my wife last September and saw a crow in a tree. I asked my wife if she knew what a group of crows was called. She suggested a Clan. I told her it was called a Murder. Before we got home I decided to write a short story called a Murder of Crows. But once I introduced my characters and put them in place, they suggested this could be a book. Eighty thousand words later I had finished "Murder of Crows." Yes, I know the title has been used several times before, but in this book the crows are actually murdered (hence the title) and they also become characters in the book, by helping solve the crime. None of the other titles are actually about crows.

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