Acknowledgements

I would like to thank: everyone at Midnight Ink, especially Terri Bischoff, Nicole Nugent, Amelia Narigon, and Bill Krause (look, Nicole, an Oxford comma!); my agent, Lisa Moylett; the real Jessies—Jess Lourey and Jessie Chandler; my sisters in crime, Sisters in Crime; my sisters in life—Sheila, Audrey, and Wendy; the other three—Catherine, Louise, and Nancy; the new three—Sarah, Spring, and Eileen (paging Dr. Freud!); the cast of thousands from Mystery Writers of America, Malice Domestic, Bouchercon, Left Coast Crime, Harrogate, Bloody Scotland, and the Crime Writers’ Association of the UK (who said writing was a lonely pursuit?); and my sister-in-law Bogusia Gruszka McRoberts, without whom Kazek would have been silent.