Acknowledgments

Thank you to Rebecca Friedman for stumbling into Metamora with me, to Terri Bischoff for adopting my stray mystery, and to Nicole Nugent for grooming it so it’s nice and pretty!

I discovered the charming little canal town of Metamora, Indiana, in the summer of 2014 while taking a weekend trip with my mom, grandma, and great-aunt. As a huge fan of the 1990 television series Northern Exposure, I immediately became captivated by the quaint eccentricity of the town. It wasn’t in Alaska, but it was as close as I’ll ever get to the show’s Cicely. While all of the people and places are fictional in Deadly Dog Days, they represent the close-knit sense of community in Metamora as accurately as possible. I believe I’ve done a good job transporting you there in this novel, but I recommend going and spending time in Metamora for yourself.