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Goodreads asked Rachel Howzell Hall:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Rachel Howzell Hall Great question!

I have a few, including a slight scar on my face that I got as a young kid but no one's ever said how it came to be.

The one mystery I'm toying over for a future story is this: there's a college ex-boyfriend. Nice guy but he was a little too lively for me. We parted as friends. Greeted each other on Facebook every now and then. He married and had kids. Taught middle school. Very involved in the community. His wife and kids go on a weekend trip. He stays home. They return -- and find him dead from a self-inflicted gunshot. He committed suicide. Which... still stuns me. Because why? What led him down that path? How did his wife feel knowing that she and the kids weren't enough to keep him from doing this. A haunting story... and those are the kinds that, for me, always turn into novels.

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