Goodreads asked Robert McCracken:

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

Robert McCracken My ideas usually come from a clash of various notions. For An Early Grave, I actually had the idea for the character Callum first. Initially he was going to be the detective. When I needed a police contact to play off I came up with DI Tara Grogan, and she took over. For the plot I married several ideas, one being the idea of a reunion (I'm always obsessed about the passage of time and how people change and manage their lives), the other was the notion of a down and out solving crime. I took it all from there.

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