Goodreads asked Darryl Donaghue:

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

Darryl Donaghue To me, good crime fiction shines a light on society. When a fictional murderer kills, what they're really doing is asking questions. Questions about the norms and values the deceased represents. With the world disrupted, the Detectives arrive to try and restore the status quo and makes sense of it all.

I wanted to write a book with relevant modern themes. Journal of Sin asks questions about rights to information and privacy in the digital community, and explores these ideas using the metaphor of religious confessional secrets. The parallel of 'Googlisation' and religion is one worth thinking about. We used to go to oracles for divine knowledge; now we have instant omniscience in our pockets. We hide our secrets in Clouds, like we confided in the heavens, and the 'leak' of those secrets makes international headlines. Human beings have worshipped Gods throughout history and I’m certain one day we’ll look back on Google as being the early 2000’s incarnation.

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