Deeper Than the Grave (27 page)

Author's Note

Tai and Trey's Atlanta is a place of bustle and leisure, nature and steel, tradition and edge, just like the real Atlanta. These two Atlantas co-exist easily in my imagination, like kissing cousins, but any native to the area will recognize some differences between my fictional version and the actual one (the most obvious being that in Trey and Tai's Atlanta, nobody spends nearly enough time waiting in traffic).

Tai's gun shop resides in my imagination; the city of Kennesaw is real, however. You'll find it slightly northwest of Atlanta, and it really does have a city ordinance requiring every head of household to maintain a firearm and ammunition. It also has a store specializing in Confederate memorabilia—Wildman's Civil War Surplus (although any resemblance between Tai's shop and this one is purely coincidental).

Trey's Buckhead neighborhood also exists, even if there isn't a bar called Hog Wild there. Most of the other places I describe—Stone Mountain (both the hunk of granite and the city beside it), the FBI field office, the High Museum of Art, the Atlanta History Center, and the Atlanta Fulton Public Library—are also real, as is Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield National Park. And while you won't find any Amberdecker plantations along the park's borders, the rest of what Tai says about the Civil War history and the complicated geography of the area is true.

If you're interested in learning more about the research that went into this book, you can check out my ever-changing Pinterest boards:
The Civil War
— devoted to the War Between the States, especially Georgia's part in it;
Criminal Behavior
, which explores villains and scams and nefarious wrongdoings, including the ones that show up in
Deeper Than the Grave
;
Trey and Tai's Accessories
, a collection of my protagonists' clothing, automobiles, and weaponry; and
Trey and Tai's Atlanta
, which includes an interactive map of the metro Atlanta landmarks that have cameo appearances in the series. This fourth book also has its own board:
Deeper Than the Grave Research
. You can find these and my other writerly and readerly boards at
www.pinterest.com/tinawh
.

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