Linda Grant, Interview with the Author Murders Turned up in Berkeley Garden. Trail Leads to Linda Grant's Writing Watching Linda Grant gently snip a rose from her Berkeley garden, one would never imagine her capable of the shocking murders she has concocted for her corporate sleuth, Catherine Sayler. Like her detective, Linda is witty, bright and liberal, studies aikido and copes with the many emotional entanglements of families in the nineties. Pulling on a floppy denim sunhat guaranteed to make her teenage daughter cringe, Grant sets a serious pace as we walk through the hills above her home.
Newspapers are a good source, but so are friends.
When people know that you plot murders for a living, you're never short of material. All the research was done in his lab at the University of California Berkeley. His students loved the idea. They were full of suggestions of ingenious means of doing someone in. They even helped me plot one of the murders.