How in the world do you think of such things? I heard this question numerous times when I first started writing Free to Kill.  The idea came to me as I was planning a vacation to Washington DC.  I was researching things to do in the city and came across the Crime & Punishment Museum (a great place to visit, by the way).

As I was looking through the different things covered in the museum, the website mentioned medieval torture.  I thought, “Hmm, I wonder what it would be like to come to work and see a real, live (well, dead) body in one of the medieval devices, instead of a mannequin.

The idea grew into wondering what it would be like to be tortured by one of the devices.

Then the researching began.  Free to Kill was born from that.  Oh, and my friends now wonder about my sanity…..