Dead Man Waltzing

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I’m grateful to Dr. Terry McGee and William J. Loskota, PhD, MD, who provided me with the expertise necessary to knock off Corinne Blakely. They gave me enough information on pharmacology and the effects of readily available prescription medicines to kill off another eight or ten books’ worth of characters. Who needs a gun?

Thanks also to my agent, the fabulous Paige Wheeler, and my editor, the insightful Sandy Harding. (They are both much more than fabulous and insightful, but I didn’t want to use my day’s adjective quota all at once.) I continue to be grateful to my writing buddies, friends, and others who don’t think I’m insane for wanting to be a novelist, and who indulge me by kicking around plot ideas, coming up with titles and character names, and listening to me babble about writing esoterica.

Finally, thanks and much love to my husband, Thomas, my mother, and my girls for being part of my life. I am constantly astonished and uplifted by their love, generosity, imagination, and general wonderfulness.