August 3rd is Release Day for Yesterday's Murder, so the title of this blog post really does make sense.

I started this story a long time ago, maybe fifteen years back. I loved the premise of a woman waking from a long-term coma, finding that her life is completely changed, and then having to solve a really cold case. I wrote maybe half of my idea down at the time, but I was working with two different publishers on two different series, and it just became too much. I set YM on the shelf (well, actually, in a file called IDEAS) and forgot about it.

When I came back to it early this year, the story needed massive changes. The years Tonnie missed had to be updated, so I went back in time to do my research. When did we all hum along with "Happy"? When did we first hear the name Malala? When did Hunger Games become a phenomenon that everyone, not just teen fans of dystopian fiction, knew about?

I didn't mind the work because I love the story. Tonnie doesn't know what happened. She wasn't "there." But when murder and money collide in the present, details from the past can become critical .