Acknowledgments

Thank you to my agent, Evan Marshall, my editor, John Scognamiglio, and all the staff at Kensington Publishing, who work tirelessly behind the scenes on every book. Thank you to my friends and family, especially my mother Pat Carter, whose endless well of ideas keeps me inspired and challenged. I hadn’t intended on writing a locked-room mystery until she believed I could do it. Thank you for that. Thank you to fellow writer and friend Tracy Clark for your support; thank you to Kevin Collins, Seamus Collins, and Bridget Quinn for all my random questions; and last, but never least, thank you, dear readers, for reading.