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Authors: Alison Gaylin
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Big thanks to detectives Tim Marcia and Mitzi Roberts of the LAPD's Robbery-Homicide division, who graciously allowed me into their workplace and answered many, many questions. Anything I got right in the Barry Dupree sections is due to their help. Anything I got wrong . . . well, that's on me.
As ever, thanks to the wonderful Deborah Schneider, my outstanding editor Lyssa Keusch, and the tireless Rebecca Lucash. I am so grateful to Liate Stehlik and the HarperCollins/William Morrow team for all their support.
Thanks to Stephanie Riggio for her Joshua Tree expertise, Marcia Clark for early-on legal expertise, Bill Ward for naming my strip club, and Linda Flyntz Rubin for her memory of defective '70s dolls. I'm grateful as well to my writer friends for their help and feedbackâparticularly Megan Abbott and Paul Leone at the beginning of this process and Abigail Thomas at the end. And to the FLs, who instigate and inspire me and make me laugh on a daily basis, even when I'm on deadline. Thanks to The Golden Notebook in Woodstock, NY, aka best bookstore EVER, for their support of local authors.
Chas Cerulli and James Conrad, Anthony Marcello and Paul, Jamie and Doug Barthel, thank you for listening to my whining and helping to keep me (reasonably) sane during the writing of this book. Thanks and love to my amazing in-laws, Sheldon and Marilyn Gaylin, and my wonderful mom, Beverly LeBov Sloane. And to Mike and Marissa, who I can't possibly hug enough.
ALISON GAYLIN
is the author of the Edgar-nominated thriller
Hide Your Eyes
and its sequel,
You Kill Me
; the standalones
Trashed
and
Heartless
; and the Brenna Spector series:
And She Was
(winner of the Shamus Award),
Into the Dark
, and the Edgar-nominated
Stay with Me
. A graduate of Northwestern University and of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, she lives with her husband and daughter in Woodstock, New York.
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Reality Ends Here
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
WHAT REMAINS OF ME.
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