With grateful thanks to all at Severn House Publishing for their stellar support and for taking a chance on two rookie mystery writers, to Sarah Florence for her insights into the work of Johannes Vermeer, to Trish Mallett for helping us to imagine our way around Hempels, to Jen Watkiss for local Oxford info, to Jose Wennekes for allowing us to use her name for our fictitious Wennekes Institute, to Andrea Dalton for advice on Innsbruck, especially food and cafes; and an especially big thank you to Andrea’s parents, Franz and Franziska Billmeier, for kindly translating a piece of dialogue into German. And finally, thanks to John and Jai for their delicious pumpkin pie!