After having set her first novel in Wisconsin, Saundra Crum Akers decided to set her mystery suspense novels in small towns in Southern Ohio. These include: Peebles, Waverly, Bainbridge, Greenfield, Circleville, Washington CH, and Ripley, Ohio. Her novel Bite of the Serpent is set in Sinking Spring, Ohio and she has recently finished a first draft of Dream Buster which is set in Chillicothe. She spent many of her childhood years in these areas and enjoys writing of places with which she is familiar. She is planning a novel which will be called Shattered Dreams and set in West Union, Ohio with part of it taking place in Morgantown, West Virginia. This novel will be a mystery suspense but also a historical novel in that it will be loosely based on real events of the past.
