Hello April, This is your brother-in-law,Tom's, brother, I've read both of your books and I think they are just as good as any Agatha Christie, I've ever read. Keep up the good work. I hope to read all of your first 100 books. Good-luck, Jon Swift

I didn't even know this was up at Mystery Net - so my apologies for not replying earlier.

In some ways, Square in the Face was inspired by the story of a real child from Medford, adopted, whose family searched for his biological siblings when he had leukemia and needed a bone marrow match. Unfortunately, they did not succeed. I still keep pictures of this smiling, bald child in his Osh-Gosh overalls right over my desk.

april, just finished square in the face and getting circles of confusion. claire is great. sharon