As always there are a number of people to whom I owe thanks for their help in writing this book. Portland, Maine Detective Sergeant (Ret) Tom Joyce who has earned my gratitude time and again for providing frequent and willing answers to my many questions about police procedures. The details I get right are due to Tom and any unintended lapses in accuracy are entirely my own fault.
Thanks also to nurse/anesthetist Maureen Furlong for her advice on what drugs Tyler should use use to knock Zoe out. And to my old friend Dr. Robert Zeff for describing the appropriate medical procedures for Rose McCabe’s last moments of life. To my early readers Kate Sullivan Nichols, Sonia Robertson and my wife Jeanne for their thoughtful comments and suggestions.
TAs always I owe thanks to my agents extraordinaire, Meg Ruley and Rebecca Scherer of the Jane Rotrosen Agency in New York and to my editor, Emily Krump from Harper Collins, and Assistant Editor Julia Elliott, for their many perceptive and helpful suggestions, all of which made this book better.
While many places in this book are real such as the NYPD 7th Precinct at 17 ½ Pitt Street and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, the interior details of both have been altered to fit my narrative. And many other locations like the McArthur/Weinstein Community Theater and Joey Boyle’s bar are totally figments of my imagination.
And finally I think it’s only fair to thank the people who created Google for making writers’ research so much easier than it was in the old days before the Internet.