Goodreads asked Judith Post:

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

Judith Post I'm actually a pretty boring person, so I'd have to fiddle with reality to turn an event into a mystery. I taught two boys in fourth grade, though, who got into mischief whenever they got together. They weren't bad boys. They just didn't like rules:) I actually enjoyed their antics when they were in my class. So it was depressing, four years later, when they were in middle school, to see both of their names and faces in our local newspaper. There's a huge, deep gravel pit not that far from our town. It's surrounded by a high fence and no trespassing signs. The boys climbed the fence during the night and decided to burrow a tunnel at the base of a huge, steep mound of sand. The mound gave and buried both of them. Workers found their bodies the next day. It was so tragic, so senseless. It bothered me for weeks. But for a mystery, you could tweak what happened and have the boys see something they shouldn't have and someone made sure they never told anyone about it.

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