Goodreads asked Paddy Magrane:

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

Paddy Magrane As a psychotherapist, I've always been intrigued by the way clients reveal information – often their most intimate thoughts, feelings and secrets. They may do this consciously or unconsciously, through the contents of a dream, say, or with their body language. When first thinking about DISORDER, I wondered what it would be like if the client was a powerful man, and the secret he unconsciously revealed was of a whopping nature!

At the time, I was not long back from a trip to Damascus. The winding alleyways and crumbling buildings of the Old City struck me as the perfect place to set a thriller. And as a tightly-run police state, Syria was a country in which committing a dark crime would have presented so many more complexities and potential dangers than, say, Oxford!

Needless to say, the tragic civil war soon put an end to my idea of setting the book there. But the souk of Marrakesh has proved a worthy understudy!

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