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Acknowledgments


Much thanks to Kristin Cochrane (that lunch!), Amy Black, Martha Leonard, Val Gow, Tonia Addison, Emma Ingram, Melanie Tutino, and everyone at Penguin Random House Canada, especially my smart, sensitive editors, Kiara Kent at Doubleday Canada and Sarah Stein at Viking, who helped bring this book over the finish line. Thank you also to Sara Leonard, Rebecca Marsh, Lindsay Prevette, Andrea Schulz, Kate Stark, Mary Stone, Brian Tart, Megan Gerrity, Allison Carney, Linda Friedner, Shannon Kelly, and everyone at Viking for believing in this book.

So grateful to Christy Fletcher, and everyone at Fletcher and Co., chiefly Grainne Fox and Veronica Goldstein, Melissa Chincillo, Erin McFadden, and Sarah Fuentes. Susan Gabriele, Sarah Durning, Meredith Oke, and Vanessa Campion read early drafts and made me want to finish faster. Cathie James and Katrina Onstad offered valuable notes, as always, and Lisa Laborde helped me avoid legal plot holes.

Kathryn Meyers Emery, PhD in Mortuary Archeology, generously replied to my science-related queries about dead bodies and shallow graves. Suffolk County Historical Society Museum has a trove on the history of Gardiners Island off Long Island. I borrowed some of that island’s storied past and topography to inform my fictional one. Finally, my late mother, Joanne Gabriele, introduced me to the works of Daphne du Maurier, something for which I’ll be forever grateful.