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Acknowledgments

As always, many thanks to The Thursday Group—Greg Jorgensen, Kate Holmes, Clark Lauren, and Janet McLaughlin—who heard a lot of this book as fastscribbled scenes written during our weekly Improv Writing Class. For their support, information, and friendship, I am blessed.

Thanks to Barry DeChant, aka the famous “Bonzo,” for letting me join one of his classes for future clowns, many of whom will work in hospices and children’s hospitals. The world is enriched by their wise humor and generosity of heart, as it is by clowns all over the country. For general crime-scene information, a big thank-you to Sarasota County Sheriff’s Department Crime Scene Technician Lora Garrett; to Dr. Reinhard W. Motte, Miami-Dade County Associate Medical Examiner; and to Homicide Detective Chris Ioreo of the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Department.

For this and every other book in the Dixie Hemingway Mystery Series, I have gratefully used information provided by numerous Web sites, newspapers, magazines, and books, most notably The New Natural Cat by Anitra Frazier with Norma Eckroate, and nature articles by Kat Wingert in the Siesta Key Observer.

And finally, many thanks to my dream team: Marcia Markland, the world’s best editor, and her assistant, Diana Szu; and to my agent, Annelise Robey, and her cohorts at the Jane Rotrosen Agency. In a time when many writers are wearing invisible black armbands for their dead faith in the publishing world, Marcia, Diana, and Annelise have been unfailingly loyal and supportive.