He introduced me to the students, invited me to hang around the lab, and patiently answered my questions. I wanted the book to have a scientific mystery along with the murder plot, and he helped me with that as well. Learning enough genetics to get the scientific background right was the hardest part of the research. A. Readers who work in different kinds of research labs have told me that the politics are very real. The students I interviewed had worked in a number of labs, and they were only too happy to share horror stories.
People are surprisingly open about describing the problems in their workplace.
In fact, I find that I can ask just about anyone why someone in their profession might be killed, and they have an answer. Not only that, they have a candidate for the victim. And they have a highly original means of doing their in victim. It's enough to make me glad I work at home. The students I interviewed were no different.