Acknowledgments
My appreciation to my editor, Sonny Mehta, for his clarity and insight, to Mary Evans, my agent, for her sharp wit and encouragement, to Kim Duddy of the King County Crime Scene Investigations Unit, for her forbearance and good humor in response to my many questions, and to James Crumley, a most excellent Halloween companion. I am also endebted to M. Lee Goff’s A Fly for the Prosecution, for its wealth of information about forensic entomology.