Hold Still (32 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

As always I have to thank my husband, Fred, and daughter, Morgan, for their patience over the many, many hours that went into this book. I have to thank my friend, fellow author, and first reader, Michael Infinito. Thank you to my CPs who helped me shape the early drafts with their excellent insight and advice: Libby Heily, Jeff O’Handley, and, as always, my bestie and writing soul mate, Nancy S. Thompson. I’d also like to thank the many friends and family—my beta readers—who read early drafts and gave me excellent feedback: Dana Mason, Joyce Regan, Karen Hardy, Eric Gorman, Renee Crabill, and Laura Aiello. Thanks to the wonderful law enforcement people who helped me research this novel: Detective James Sloan, Detective Joe Murray, and Officer Timothy Taylor. Thanks to ADAs and fellow authors Mark Pryor and Paul Parisi for letting me run my fictional legal scenarios by them. Thanks to my unofficial “street team”—my friends, family, readers, and fans whose passion and enthusiasm always keeps me writing when I feel like giving up: my mom, Donna House; my dad, William Regan; my dad, Rusty House; my stepmom, Julie House; sister, Grace House; Melissia McKittrick; Aunt Jean Regan and Uncle Dennis Regan; my sister-in-law, Debbie Tralies; Ava and Tom McKittrick; Carol Conlen; Judy LaMay; the Delaware Valley Chapter of Sisters in Crime; my brother and sister-in-law, Sean and Cassie House; my brothers, Andy and Kevin Brock; my sister-in-law, Christine Brock; my sister, Rebecca Brock; Tanya Fisher; Lottie Franta; Tracy Dauphin; Helen Conlen; the Dorton family; Marilyn House; Al and Kitty Funk; my aunts and uncles, Ronald and Debbie Conlen, Dennis and Mary Conlen, and Paul and Susan Conlen, who have read everything I’ve written and always spread the word. Thanks to all my sisters at D.A.M.N. for always being there for me and having my back. Thank you to Rob Conway for selling me a used laptop at a reasonable price so that I could actually focus on finishing this book! Thank you to Carrie Butler of Forward Authority Design, T. S. Tate, Tajare Taylor, and Dale Pease, who worked on the first edition. Thank you to Anh Schluep for taking a chance on me and the entire team at Amazon for your amazing work making this book shine. Finally, thank you to my readers—you are the absolute best.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Lisa Regan is a suspense novelist. She has a bachelor’s degree in English and a master of education from Bloomsburg University. She is a member of Sisters in Crime. She lives in Philadelphia with her husband and daughter. Her debut novel,
Finding Claire Fletcher
, won Best Heroine and was runner-up in Best Novel in the eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Awards for 2013. To learn more, please visit her website at
www.lisaregan.com
.