And on the cop stuff:
Detective Carl and D.A. Diana Carter for their continued friendship and expert feedback; Gary Bale, the sweetest cop in Orange County; generous and charming Paul Bishop, author, LAPD detective; retired LAPD detective and current private investigator Don Long, who doesn't know how to give a short answer (writers love this); Special Agent Allen Grimes, who schooled me on the nature of rapists.
Many thanks to longtime friend and estate attorney Fred McNair); who hates the part in books and movies where they gather everybody into one room for the reading of the will. They never do that, he says.
Thank you, Gordon Crosthwait, owner of the beautiful La Condesa, for taking me into your world and showing me around. Thanks also go to Brian Reese, John Clark, Phil Palmari, John Skinner, and Dave Davies, train enthusiasts aka "foamers." So named because when you ask them about trains, they tend to foam at the mouth.
On the writing end of things:
Many thanks to my writing "families" for making the journey less lonely: the Orange County Fictionaires and my free-writing, desert Tuesday group—Doug, Diane, and Sylvia. Two of the smartest groups of people to ever assemble.
Deepest appreciation to Russ Isabella, for his honesty in the eleventh hour.
Kudos also to my tenacious, yet gracious, agent, Sandy Dijkstra, and her exceptional staff.
My phenomenal, hardworking publicists: Jackie Green and Jim Schneeweis.
My superb editors: Susanne Kirk and George Lucas.
Thanks all. Let's do it again soon.
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