Goodreads asked A.R. Simmons:

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

A.R. Simmons I get some of my best ideas while driving. One of the places I drove through repeatedly was an old German town in central Missouri, Westphalia. On the highway is an old cemetery where some of the markers are large iron crosses. Putting that together with the frequently encountered roadside memorials to accident victims, I thought of the plot for Road Shrines, a novel about a serial killer's "memory lane."

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