acknowledgments

Thank you to my wife Karen for supporting my writing career in all ways possible. She’s lent me confidence, advice, critique, and editing at the times that I needed each of them. I wouldn’t be writing without her. She’s also an outstanding copyeditor.

Tom Fitzpatrick lent his outstanding copyediting skills to Corrupted Memory, reading an early copy and finding the spots where my meager understanding of comma usage let me down. Thank you, Tom, for taking the time to read and critique the manuscript.

Thank you to my agent, Eric Ruben, for being an early fan of this book and for finding it a home with Midnight Ink.

Speaking of Midnight Ink, thank you to Terri Bichoff for having faith in Corrupted Memory and Tucker, and to Nicole Nugent for saving my bacon with her remarkable fact-checking skills.

Thank you to Scott Aron Bloom, Kay Allerdt Helberg, and Tim McIntire for reading early versions of the book and giving me feedback. As always, thank you to Clair Lamb for her outstanding editorial guidance.

Finally, thank you to my friends at Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime who make it so much fun to be part of the mystery-writing community.