The Rainy Day Killer (31 page)

Acknowledgments

I’m grateful to the authors of three reference sources: John E. Douglas, Ann W. Burgess, Allen G. Burgess and Robert K. Ressler,
Crime Classification Manual: A Standard System for Investigating and Classifying Violent Crimes
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Inc., 1992); Robert K. Ressler, Ann W. Burgess and John E. Douglas,
Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives
(New York: The Free Press, 1992); and Frederick A. Jaffe,
A Guide to Pathological Evidence
(Toronto: Carswell, 1976). Any misstatements, errors, or incorrect interpretations of their work are entirely my responsibility.

Once again, I’m deeply indebted to editorial reader Margaret Leroux for her superb work with the manuscript. Thanks as well to Gwenda Lemoine, my “Clive Cussler” reader. If there are any sections in this novel that you, the reader, skipped through because they were boring, it’s not because Gwenda didn’t point them out to me first.

Thanks go out to the real Stuy Porter and Charlene Tennant-Pecaskie for the loan of their names. Stuy, I hope you didn’t mind that Karen called your counterpart a dope. Charlene, perhaps managing a mall would be an improvement on the SRS!

Finally, thanks go out to my wife, Lynn Clark, to whom this book is dedicated. Lynn has once again spent many hours as my editor, taking on not only developmental editing of the first draft but also the copy editing and proofreading of the revised manuscript and the final proofs. Thanks to her, as well, for the lyrics to the song “End of the Day,” attributed in the novel to Liz Baskett. In addition to her work on this manuscript, she has also labored tirelessly as publicity and distribution manager for our imprint, The Plaid Raccoon Press—for which the raccoon is, believe me, eternally grateful (contact information available at www.theplaidraccoonpress.com).

For everything you’ve done, and for all your patience, love, and affection, this book is lovingly dedicated to you, Lynn.

About the Author

Michael J. McCann
lives and writes in Oxford Station, Ontario, Canada. A graduate of Trent University in Peterborough, ON, and Queen’s University in Kingston, ON, he worked for Carswell Legal Publications (Western) as Production Editor of
Criminal Reports (Third Series)
before spending fifteen years with the Canada Border Services Agency as a training specialist, project officer, and program manager at national headquarters in Ottawa. He’s married and has one son.

He’s the author of the Donaghue and Stainer Crime Novel series, including
Blood Passage
,
Marcie’s Murder
, and
The Fregoli Delusion
, as well as
The Ghost Man
, a supernatural thriller.

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