Goodreads asked Conda V. Douglas:

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

Conda V. Douglas The mystery novel I'm working on now, Starke Raving Dead, the second in my Starke Dead series, was inspired by my uncle's eccentricities. He tossed my grandmother out of her...grave. (It's okay, she had two, long story.) That coupled with how the pioneers in Idaho, my setting for the Starke Dead series, often had backyard graveyards and the first scene of Starke Raving Dead is born.

Mad Maddie Starke is busily digging a large hole in the backyard, hunting for a Native American burial. Why? her niece Dora wonders--and Dora hates the answer.

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