Goodreads asked Alp Mortal:

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

Alp Mortal Chambers Mars and I were writing Dust Jacket and we needed an author and the title of a book to use in the plot; we created Carter Seagrove who wrote The Blakely Affair; then we decided to write it more just out of fun; it's a murder mystery. It's now spawned a series, The Inspector Fenchurch Mysteries and we are writing Black Veil at the moment. Generally I get my ideas from snippets of dialogue and often one of my stories will begin with that line of dialogue 'Four shot, tall latte, please' being my absolute favourite first line.

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