Friends and family showed up here for me. I glance at Fishner, who is staring out the window, into the darkness of night, and wonder whether she’s a friend or if she’s family.
The nurse brings more water, and I take a couple of sips and set the cup on my tray, but then Lieutenant Fishner makes sure that I drink it all.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to my editors, Alyssa Hall and Angela McRae, for filing off the rough edges, for seeing the dark humor in this book, and for laughing with me about things that others might not find funny.
Thanks to the whole staff at Red Adept for the good work that you do and to Streetlight Graphics for the fantastic cover.
Thanks to Claire Anderson-Wheeler, my amazing agent at Regal, Hoffman & Associates.
Thanks to my parents for instilling a love of dark, demented mystery fiction in me at a very early age.
Thanks to my writing partners, Kate and Sarah, for keeping me honest and on task.
Thanks beyond words to Malia, the love of my life.
All characters and events in this book are figments of my imagination. I am not Elizabeth Boyle any more than you are, though I like to think that she and I have an understanding of sorts. The Cleveland Department of Police does not have a Special Homicide Division. Therefore, the squad room, the ranking system within the unit, and some of the procedural aspects of the book are, like the characters and events, fictional. It’s tremendously likely that I’ve botched several facets of how real police would investigate this crime, and I’ve definitely taken creative liberties with the city itself. In short, none of this really exists or ever did, and any similarity to actual places, events, or persons, living or dead, is a coincidence.
Any mistakes are my own.
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Kate Birdsall was born in the heart of the Rust Belt and harbors a hesitant affinity for its grit. She’s an existentialist who writes both short and long fiction, and she plays a variety of loud instruments. She lives in Michigan’s capital city with her partner and at least one too many four-legged creatures.
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