A blog post I did for Random House over on Tumblr:

Does it help to see where a novel is set? Would you understand Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County any better if you actually visited his Mississippi? Is it even possible to understand Dickens if you have no idea what Victorian London looked like?…

The post includes this photo of Cold Spring Park, the setting of the murder in Defending Jacob. More photos of the park are here.