Gaining readers because of fact placement of emergency procedures

Increasingly, emergency procedures in my novels , such as handling a pandemic, or requirements for gaining Fake ID, enable me to speak with scientific or other interest groups, who are a completely new readership/audience for my kind of YA mystery/crime.
Such fact placement opens opportunities for discussion of cross promotion with major "industries" and organisations outside of the publishing industry and therefore unconventional to the usual promotion trail...

In the past I've randomly chosen eco-semi-scientific settings for my novels, such as Antarctica or the outback and indirectly included facts about pandemic preventative procedures and emergency medicine. Now I'm more conscious of fact placement.

Often readers like the facts of a procedure like Crimestoppers being included such as in Anita Bell's Kirby's Crusader duet:"Tagged by Dead Dogs" and "Hunt the Hunters" both of which promote Crime Stoppers (having won an international crimestoppers award). Have others found the indirect ( or direct) benefits of the procedural 'facts' or emergency procedures as 'tags' for their mystery/crime writing?

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