JACK FREDRICKSON is the author of Honestly Dearest, You’re Dead, a Nancy Pearl Pick, as well as A Safe Place for Dying, which was nominated for the Shamus Award, and Hunting Sweetie Rose. His short fiction has appeared in the acclaimed Chicago Blues, Michael Connelly’s The Blue Religion, and Charlaine Harris’s Crimes by Moonlight. He lives with his wife, Susan, west of Chicago, where he is president of the Friends of the Hinsdale Library and writes a newspaper column.