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Goodreads asked Gina Fava:

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

Gina Fava In one way or another, personal experiences always infiltrate the pages of whatever I'm writing, but never more so than in my latest suspense thriller, The Sculptor. Graduate student, Mara Silvestri, meets her love interest in much the same way that I met my husband, while studying abroad in Rome, Italy. Also, every riveting scene that plays out in this fast-paced mystery is based almost entirely on real life events. From skiing off a cliff in the Swiss Alps, to being chased down and shot at by the Italian Secret Service in the streets of Rome, to joyriding in a borrowed Venetian gondola, to ducking out of an opera in search of a plate of tortellini and romantic conversation--these things really happened! But to what end? It's a mystery...

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