It used to be that if someone was murdered in a house, no one would want to live there. And for some people, that’s still true.
But for others, being the site of a gruesome murder is a selling point. Or at least a reason to attend the open house.
It’s the decision to embrace or deny its murderous past that the town on Rainier has to grapple with in author Shelley Burr’s noir murder mystery thriller Murder Town (paperback, Kindle, audiobook). And a decision that the residents have to grapple with further when someone turns up dead.
In the following email interview, Burr discusses what inspired and influenced this murderous story.
