Acknowledgments

I owe thanks to Buddy and Lisa Green who made a generous contribution to the Lawton-Fort Sill Arts for All campaign of Lawton, Oklahoma, in honor of their granddaughter Chayslee Brett Zimmerman, whose name appears in this book.

I also owe thanks to Jim Avance, a real-life detective, who advised me. If I got it wrong, it’s my fault, not Jim’s. Others who helped included my Michigan friends and neighbors Tracy Paquin, Susan McDermott, and Judy Hallisy. Plus the only architect to whom I’m related, my brother, Kim Kimbrell. My chocolate experts remain my daughter, Betsy Peters; and my pal Elizabeth Garber of Best Chocolate in Town, Indianapolis.

If I didn’t have friends and relatives, I couldn’t write a word.