by Gary Braver
For his tremendous help and guidance on medical matters, I am greatly indebted to Robert M. Goldwyn, Professor Emeritus of Plastic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts. Thanks also to Henry David Abraham, M.D., and to old friends Dr. Michael G. Carvalho, Clinical Psychopharmacologist, Manchester, New Hampshire, Veterans Affairs Medical Center; and Dr. Wanda Hunt, Clinical Psychopharmacologist, VA Medical Center, Manchester, New Hampshire. I would also like to thank good friend Dr. Marie Dacey, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
For police procedures, I want to thank John J. McLean, Lieutenant Detective, Detective Bureau, Medford Police, who was always there when I needed him. Thanks also to my colleague John McDevitt, Associate Dean, College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University; and to Alex Sbordone, retired captain, Newton, Massachusetts, Police Department.
For reasons that they know well, thanks also to Alice Janjigian, Robert Janjigian, Malcolm Childers, and Barbara Shapiro.
Finally, a special thanks to my faithful agent and friend, Susan Crawford, and to my editor, Natalia Aponte, who still believes in me.
I would also like to acknowledge the following books that assisted in the research: Beyond Appearance: Reflections of a Plastic Surgeon, by Robert M. Goldwyn (New York: Dodd Mead & Company, 1986); Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery, by Virginia L. Blum (Berkeley and Los Angeles, Calif.: University of California Presss, 2003); and The Forensic Science of C.S.I., by Katherine Ramsland (New York: The Berkley Publishing Group, 2001).
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
SKIN DEEP
Copyright © 2008 by Gary Braver
All rights reserved.
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Library of Congess Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Braver, Gary.
Skin deep / Gary Braver.—1st hardcover ed.
p. ; cm.
“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”
ISBN: 978-0-7653-0975-4
1. Police—Massachusetts—Boston—Fiction. 2. Surgery, Plastic—Patients—Crimes against—Fiction. 3. Serial murderers—Fiction. 4. Boston (Mass.)—Fiction. 5. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
PS3552.R3554S55 2008
813'.54—dc22
2008005425
