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Jodi Compton grew up in northern California and graduated from UC Berkeley. Three years in Minnesota for graduate studies in journalism inspired her Minneapolis detective, Sarah Pribek. She returned to California for her first newspaper job, in San Luis Obispo, and the L.A.-influenced youth culture of that town gave rise to Hailey Cain.
While Jodi has lived in some of California's most beautiful coastal towns — Santa Cruz, Ventura, San Luis Obispo and Morro Bay — she now lives in Bend, in the mountains of central Oregon, and is waiting to see what that new setting will inspirem
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The 37th Hour is much more than a suspense novel. It is also a novel that
moves beyond genre classifications by focusing on two people ---Sarah and
Shiloh --- who are flawed and damaged in deep and dangerous ways that
neither of them suspects. What was your inspiration for the
characterizations of, and the relationship between, Sarah and Shiloh?
With Sarah and Shiloh, I wanted to make people believe in a relationship
that is really unsentimental and unconventional. Early in the book, Sarah
refers to Shiloh as 'you son of a bitch.' Later, in flashbacks, the
reader finds that they met through a one-night stand. There's no roses or
candlelight in this marriage; it's an alliance between two soldiers. While
I was writing it, I sometimes wondered, 'I am going too far with this?'
But I really wanted to make people feel the powerful
kinship-between-outsiders that bonds them. I knew I'd succeeded when
female early readers weighed in with a lot of anxiety over whether Shiloh
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We love how you structured The 37th Hour -- weaving a lot of background
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