In the meanwhile, she’d have to be patient. She’d just have to tolerate living in her childhood house a little longer . . .
Caroline exhaled.
There were no perfect answers.
Gently, almost reverently, she placed the pawn on the porch’s railing.
The dark souvenir looked back at her, faceless and small.
Caroline walked back inside the house.
The porch door closed behind her with a snap of finality.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thank you to my family: Nicole, Eli, Alex, and Ava. You make every day fun (except the ones that aren’t). Your love and support are life-giving. Thank you for all of your patience, all of your ideas, and all of your hugs when I need them. I truly hit the jackpot with all of you.
Thank you to Stephanie Delman, my amazing agent, whose good humor, work ethic, and instincts have been gifts. You totally rock. Thank you also to Heide Lange and Samantha Isman at Greenburger Associates, for believing in this project and giving it your love and attention.
Thank you to everyone at Thomas & Mercer, and particularly to editors JoVon Sotak and Charlotte Herscher, who have been insightful, supportive, and brilliant. Thank you to copyeditor Sara Brady and proofreader Toisan Craigg, who caught all kinds of embarrassing mistakes that thankfully you’ll now never see.
Thank you to everyone who gave comments on the manuscript. Writing is like accretion. You provided sediment that stuck: Nicole Pearl, Stuart Tobisman, Hal Heisler, Ricki Tobisman, Lauren Antonoff, Suzanne Gordon, Karen Blackfield, Robin Simons, Charlene Tobisman-Davis, Barry Davis, Hank Jacobs, Stefanianna Moore, Natalie Friedman, Todd Jackson, Allison Delman, Sarah Cypher, Alan Rinzler, Daryl DePollo, Ken Gross, Susan Levison, Stephanie Levine, Kaitlin Olson, Barbara Zimmermann, and Kevin McKernan. Thank you to Joel Gotler for suggesting that I write this book.
Thank you to my colleagues at Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland LLP, the best appellate firm on the planet. The folks there are not only smart and good at what they do, but also great people with whom I’m proud to work.
And finally, thank you to my parents for raising me in a house full of books and ideas, and for giving me a lifetime of love.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Photo © 2015 Robin Hultgren
For fifteen years, C.E. Tobisman has been an appellate attorney, handling cases in the California courts of appeal and Supreme Court. After graduating from UC Berkeley and attending law school there, she moved to Los Angeles, where she now lives with her wife and their three children. Doubt is the first novel in her new series featuring Caroline Auden. Tobisman is also the author of Inside the Loop, published by Emet Comics. Find her on Twitter at @CETobisman_, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/cetobisman, and at www.cetobisman.com.
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