Final Sins (38 page)

Tess and Abby previously teamed up in
Dangerous Games
and
Mortal Faults
. Tess appeared separately in
Next Victim
, and Abby was introduced in
The Shadow Hunter
.

Many thanks to all the people who made it possible for me to write
Final Sins
: my agent, Jane
Dystel
of
Dystel
&
Goderich
Literary Management; her partner at the agency, Miriam
Goderich
; Tracy Bernstein, executive editor at New American Library; my friend Rene in Holland, who told me about the real-life case of a Japanese serial killer who became a celebrity; and fellow Arizona novelist Margaret Falk, who was always there with moral support. The idea of Tess’s obsession with Adolf Hitler’s demonic aspects was prompted by James Hillman’s fine book
The Soul’s Code
—specifically the chapter titled “The Bad Seed.”

Readers are invited to visit me at
michaelprescott.net
, where you’ll find information on all nine of my books, as well as interviews, essays, and a link to my blog.