ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks once again to Glenn Gers, Susan Dickes and Tony Quinn for the friendship, encouragement and incisive reads.

And to Jay Mandel, Jared Levine, Ailleen Gorospe and David McIlvain for minding the store.

Thanks always to Andrew Lazar, Christina Lurie and Steve Shainberg for their initial contributions and support.

When I was writing the Last Looks acknowledgments, I’d met almost no one at Dutton or Penguin Random House, but in the year since, I’ve been perpetually delighted by a team whose talent, dedication and thoughtfulness is unsurpassed in my working life. So thank you, Maria Whelan, Kayleigh George, Marya Pasciuto, John Parsley, Karen Dziekonski, Nicole Morano, Tony Hudz and Kaitlin Kall.

And especially Jess Renheim, who deserves her own paragraph.

I want to thank Harlan Coben, William Kent Krueger, Meg Gardiner, Gregg Hurwitz and Nick Petrie for standing up for my first novel; it won’t be forgotten. Also the readers who’ve taken the time to share their enthusiasm for Last Looks on social media.

A special thank-you to my great friend John Michael Higgins, who’s blessed my work with his own so many times over so many years, for this latest and most unexpected collaboration.

Another shout-out to everybody at Peet’s.

If you’re still reading this and haven’t already checked out the Story of Stuff Project, please do.

The Waldo books would not exist without everything I’ve learned and keep learning from Amanda, Milo and Gary Gould.

My deepest gratitude, always, is for Terri Gould, for her patience and her kindness and her faith, and for, as a bonus, being the toughest and finest reader any writer could want.