Abattoir Blues

Acknowledgements

I would first like to thank Sheila Halladay for reading the manuscript when I thought it was finished and pointing out that there was still work to be done.

At Hodder, my thanks go to Carolyn Mays for such a terrific job on the editing, especially given the time constraints. Also thanks to Katy Rouse for all her assistance and to Justine Taylor for clear and clean copy-editing. At McClelland & Stewart, I would like to thank Ellen Seligman and Kendra Ward for their editing, and at Morrow, Carolyn Marino and Emily Krump.

Thanks to my agents Dominick Abel and David Grossman for their continuing support. Also thanks to the publicists —Kerry Hood at Hodder, Ashley Dunn at McClelland & Stewart and Laurie Connors at Morrow. Thanks are also due to Debby de Groot in Toronto and Jane Acton at Four Colman Getty, London.

A special thank you to Nicholas Reckert for the interesting walks that somehow always seem to suggest a possible crime scene.

Last but not least, thanks to the sales teams who make the deals and set up the special promotions, to the reps who get out on the road and sell the book to the shops, and to the booksellers themselves, without whom you wouldn’t be holding this volume in your hand. And thanks, of course, to you, the reader.