Raw Bone
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Anne Collins, of Random House Canada is my editor, champion and whip-cracker. MacNeice and I are blessed to have her in our corner.
My colleagues at STC—Carmen Serravalle, and Mark Lyle—have been terrific in bringing my photographs for this online series of MacNeice novels to life.
I want to thank my family: Marsh, Andrea, Daniela, Lucas, Ian, Sophia, Chuck and Kathryn, for their patience, love and support.
And finally, I’m grateful to Richard Halperin for allowing me to use an excerpt of his poem, Beauty. As great poets do, he’s gently lifted a hidden truth from the shadows to the light.
About the Author
SCOTT THORNLEY grew up in Hamilton, Ontario, which inspired his fictional Dundurn. As president and creative director of Scott Thornley + Company, a strategic creative firm, Thornley worked with cultural and health science clients in Canada, the United States and Great Britain. Over time, his love of graphic and typographic design grew to include writing the stories that would bring his client’s products and services to life. While he still works with select clients in Canada and the US, Scott has returned to his first loves—drawing and photography—to complement his ongoing passion for writing. Scott Thornley lives in Toronto with his wife, Shirley Blumberg, and in the southwest of France, where much of this book was written. Raw Bone follows Erasing Memory and The Ambitious City, the first two MacNeice Mystery novels.