Patrick asked Patrick Kanouse:

I’m not sure if this has been asked yet. How do you decide where the story will take place? Is it a real city or town or a made up one? Is it a place you have been before? If it a real city do you research that area?

Patrick Kanouse For THE CLEARING, I wanted a small town near the Canadian border because one of the "threads" of the story and it needed to be with quick, easy access to New York City and thence to Washington, DC. So I made a town up and plunked it where I wanted. For THE SHATTERED BULL and Drexel Pierce series, those are set in Chicago, which I've visited frequently and am readily able to obtain research. Plus Google Maps helps a lot there too.

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