To independent booksellers everywhere, and especially to:

Crosshaven Books, Birmingham, AL; Capitol Books and News, Montgomery, AL; The Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale AZ; Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA; Fig Garden Bookstore, Fresno, CA; Mystery Bookshop, Los Angeles, CA; Mysterious Galaxy, San Diego, CA; San Francisco Mystery Bookstore, San Francisco, CA; M Is for Mystery, San Mateo, CA; Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, CO; Murder by the Book, Denver, CO; Just Books, Old Greenwich, CT; Murder on the Beach, Delray Beach, FL; Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, IA; The Mystery Company, Carmel, IN; Rainy Day Books, Fairway, KS; The Raven, Lawrence, KS; Kate’s Mystery Books, Cambridge, MA; Spirit of ’76 Bookstore, Marblehead, MA; Brunswick Bookland, Brunswick, ME; Maine Coast Book Shop, Damariscotta, ME; Books, Etc., Falmouth, ME; Longfellow Books, Portland, ME; Nonesuch Books, South Portland, ME; Aunt Agatha’s, Ann Arbor, MI; Schuler Books and Music, MI; McLean and Eakin, Petoskey, MI; Once Upon A Crime, Minneapolis, MN; Uncle Hugo’s, Minneapolis, MN; St. Andrew’s Bookstore, Jackson, MS; Lee Booksellers, Lincoln, NE; Bookworm Bookstore, Omaha, NE; Toadstool Bookstore, Milford, NH; White Birch Books, North Conway, NH; Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza, Albany, NY; Partners and Crime, New York, NY; Black Orchid, New York, NY; Episcopal Book and Resource Center, New York, NY; Books and Company., Dayton, OH; Joseph-Beth Bookstore, OH; Foul Play, Westerville, OH; Powell’s, Beaverton, OR; Malice the Mystery Bookstore, Bend, OR; The Bookloft, Enterprise, OR; Mystery Lovers Bookshop, Oakmont, PA; Trinity Cathedral Bookstore, Columbia, SC; Murder by the Book, Houston, TX; Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, WA; Whodunit? Books, Olympia, WA; Seattle Mystery Bookshop, Seattle, WA; The Episcopal Bookstore, Seattle, WA; Aunties Books, Spokane, WA; Hastings, Spokane, WA; Creekside Books, Cedarburg, WI; The Velveteen Rabbit, Fort Atkinson, WI; Book World, WI; Booked For Murder, Madison, WI; Mystery One, Milwaukee, WI; Books and Co., Oconomowoc, WI.