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Using local settings in my romantic suspense books

I’m currently working on the next book in the Grayce Walters series, MEN UNDER FIRE. Writing contemporary romantic suspense requires just as much research as historical romance suspense, but it’s a different kind of fact-finding. Since my books are set in Seattle, where I happen to live, it’s easy to incorporate my research into other activities.

For example, I volunteer as children’s tour guide and frequently lead groups through Pike Place Market. Because of spacing limitations, many of the marketplace vendors store their inventory in the Sanitary Market food locker. It’s rather dark and foreboding — the perfect backdrop for something sinister or dangerous, don’t you agree?

I’m also developing a female character who is a rocker trying to break into Seattle’s grunge music scene. To get some insight into this character, I interviewed Gretta Harley, a local musician. I believe this authenticity enriches my stories so that when readers step onto the page, they enter a world that is part fiction, part fact, but always entertaining and compelling.

Is there a location in your hometown that would make a good setting for romantic suspense?

ROMANCE IN SEATTLE...

Guess who finds love at the Seattle Space Needle besides Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan? Animal Acupuncturist Grayce Walters and Fire Investigator Ewan Davis, characters in AN INNER FIRE. Unlike our favorite movie stars, Davis and Grayce don’t meet in the Tourist Center. Davis is roped and dangling from the Needle as part of rescue practice for the Seattle Fire Department. Find out how love blossoms at 520 feet.
Read the romance mystery novel An Inner Fire by – Jacki Delecki releases on November 14th.