Forty Words for Sorrow

Acknowledgements

The following people all read earlier versions of Forty Words and made numerous suggestions for cuts and improvements, or helped in other ways: Bill Booth; Anne Collins, my editor at Random House Canada; my wife, Janna Eggebeen; my agent, Helen Heller; Linda Sandler; Staff Sergeant Rick Sapinski of the North Bay Police Department; and my editor at Putnam’s, Marian Wood. I am grateful to them all.