Goodreads asked Céline La Frenière:

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

Céline La Frenière Glaston Town is a story I have more or less lived through. From the time I grew up in Montreal, and lived and worked in Vancouver, Los Angeles and London, I always preferred deprived, colourful neighbourhoods over wealthier environments. It is their close knit communities that attracted me to them. Besides, there’s something real about people who struggle to make ends meet or live on the margin.

There is a murder in this book. I didn't start out to write a murder mystery. By the time the crime takes place, the readers know the victim and the suspects intimately.

My initial purpose was to write the Solitary Kingfisher as a short novel.
It is the story of an odd boy who is grappling to find his identity in the rough neighbourhood where he lives with his single mother. Once I completed it, however, my characters would not let me go. They wanted to take me on a longer journey. So I kept on writing. The second book, The Rebels forced me to change gear. Whereas the first book saw outsiders as enemies, the Rebels took on a different quality. The enemies were within and leading to a savage murder. The third book, Unfinished Business becomes of whodunit. In the end, all three books were consolidated.

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