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Book: Old Poison - A Diana Hunter Thriller by Joan Francis
categories: Book, Diana Hunter Thrillers, Climate Change, Petroleum Industry, Costa Rica, Rain Forest, New Mexico, Detective Story, Eco-ThrillerJoan Francis

Joan Francis, Francis Pacific Investigations. As a licensed private investigator I usually limit my clients to attorneys. If you take a lay-person as a client you end up having to investigate your client before you can investigate his case. But no matter how carefully one selects clients, it's still possible to end up with someone who has a hidden agenda or is a nut case. In my novel, Old Poison I decided to give my fictional PI a client with a most improbable case. The fun thing about the way I write is that I just put the character into a situation on the page and follow her around and see what happens. In this case, Diana led me to research climate change, water on Mars, alternative fuel, and to spend a wonderful month exploring the rain forest in Costa Rica.
Though my story is fiction, the shocking thing is that much of what I wrote has since been verified as fact. If your want a real shocker, after you read my book, read Cal Tech's study of what hydrogen fuel might do to the atmosphere. Their study was published three months after Old Poison.
My book cover was from a dream and my title was chosen with the assistance of Sue Grafton. Sue also consulted with me for one of her books and mentioned me on the acknowledgements page of her book, R is for Ricochet.
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