Acknowledgments

I’ve said many times that the best thing about being a writer is all the friends I have made in the Canadian crime-writing community and beyond. Thanks to Barbara Fradkin, Mary Jane Maffini, Linda Wiken, and Robin Harlick in particular for our annual summer writers’ retreat. (Much retreating is done, little writing!) Thanks also to my fabulous agent, Kim Lionetti, and the gang at Bookends, and to the people at Crooked Lane, including Sarah Poppe, who always brings a keen but fun-loving editor’s eye to my manuscripts.

Thanks also to the Sherlock community, who’ve accepted my work in the spirit in which it was intended.