Envy the Night

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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Deepest gratitude to Dennis Lehane, Roland Merullo, Christine Caya, Sterling Watson, Meg Kearney, Laura Lippman, and all others involved with the Writers in Paradise program at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, and the low-residency MFA program at Pine Manor College in Boston, where this book was born.

The Willow Flowage is a real place, albeit one with which I took plenty of fictional liberties, and I’m grateful to my father for introducing me to it, and to Dwight and Fran Simonton for being gracious hosts over the years and providing some wonderful background information. Also to Jim Kiepke for always finding the fish.

Ryan Easton guided me through details related to cars and the body shop business, and my sister, Jennifer, advised on dealing with stroke patients. If I got anything right, the credit is theirs, and if I got it wrong, the blame is mine.

Thanks, as always, to my agent, David Hale Smith, and to the St. Martin’s Press/Thomas Dunne team for their wonderful work, particularly Pete Wolverton, Andy Martin, Katie Gilligan, and Liz Byrne.

Further thanks to:

Michael Connelly, Bob Hammel, Laura Lane, Gena Asher, Don Johnson, Robert Pepin, Louise Thurtell, and Lawrence Rose. And to all of the booksellers, reviewers, and magazine publishers who do so much to help, particularly Jim Huang, Jamie and Robin Agnew, Richard Katz, Jon and Ruth Jordan, John and Toni Cross, Otto Penzler, Barbara Peters, Lynn Kaczmarek, Chris Aldrich, and Janet Rudolph.