The Blonde

Acknowledgments

The Blonde would not have been possible without Meredith, Parker, and Sarah. Nor without Allan “Sunshine” Guthrie, “Marquis” Marc Resnick, or David “Hale” Smith.

The author would also like to thank Ray Banks, Lou Boxer (pharmaceuticals), Ken Bruen, Angela Cheng Caplan, Bill Crider, Aldo Calcagno (locations), Michael Connelly, Paul Curci, Carol Edwards, Father Luke Elijah, Loren Feldman, Nancy French, Greg Gillespie, McKenna Jordan, Jon, Ruth and Jen Jordan, Deen Kogan, Christin Kuretich (wardrobe), Terrill Lee Lankford (possum wrangling), Joe Lansdale, Laura Lippman, Emily MacEntee, Donna Moore, Kevin Burton Smith, Mark Stanton, Shauyi Tai, David Thompson, Dave White, the good people at St. Martin’s Minotaur, the City Paper, his friends and family, and fair-haired people everywhere.