Goodreads asked Carl T. Smith:

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

Carl T. Smith Terry Kay once told me to listen, that there are stories all around me, around everyone. It was good advice. Sometimes it's newspaper articles, idle gossip, something in history. For the present book, I lived in the area where the incident that is basis for the book took place. For Lowcountry Boil, it was a morning walk on Fripp Island with a neighbor who had been to prison, which I did not know until he told me. I was listening.

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