by Gregory Ashe
Austin Gwin, for giving me a sense of the issues with pacing, for reminding me to get the Keeper in front of readers again, and for helping me pinpoint where things came together for Hazard and Somers in their argument.
Steve Leonard, for catching awkward phrasing and repetition, spotting discontinuities, catching Dulac in an (un)intentional lie (which I’ve now removed), and for encouraging emails and messages when I just wanted to throw in the towel.
Cheryl Oakley, for her meticulous analysis of the murder (or better said, the plot holes in the murder!), for helping me work out the convoluted timeline, for spotting the problems with Daniel and the necklace, for kindly sending me lists of the things that were working, and for helping me think about the most important elements of Hazard’s deal with Glenn.
Carole Rubin, for researching the complex issue of the rights of grandparents in the state of Missouri and for helping me identify how and why Donna May would have lost custody and what Dolly’s grandparents might have tried to keep her with them.
Tray Stephenson, for always spotting things that everybody else missed, for drawing my attention to lidocaine, for reminding me that the Junior League isn’t just for baseball, and for keeping me going with encouraging emails and friendly updates.
Dianne Thies, for thinking about beer versus water, keeping track of slips of paper (it was in his pocket the whole time!), reminding me that crops have to be planted before they can grow (Missouri in April), and a whole host of other problems, typos, and continuity errors!
Jo Wegstein, for helping me make a joke about fonts, for thinking carefully about Daniel and what it means to be Mexican-American, for helping me make a joke about geometric scales, for catching me in a million other slip-ups and mistakes, and for providing insight into so many other things in this book.
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