Death at the Door (31 page)
Authors: K. C. Greenlief
Also by K. C. Greenlief
Cold Hunter's Moon
My thanks go out to a battalion of people who have given me ideas and supported this process:
My wonderful husband, Roger, what a blessing you are.
To my many friends, including Alice Ann, Becky, Brenda, Brian, Connie, Debra, Lyle, Mary Kay, Patsy, Sheila, and Susan, thank you for your good thoughts and encouragement.
Thank you to the many people in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, who have supplied me with great ideas and cheered me on.
My mother and brothers have tolerated my obsessive love of books for decades. All this is really your fault!
To Barbara Steiner, a most gifted teacher of writing, and John Talbot, a remarkable agent.
Special thanks to Carin Siegfried for her masterful editorial skills, and the great people at Thomas Dunne Books.
Thank you to Investigator Monica Bartling of the Nebraska State Patrol and H. Hod Kosman, president and CEO of Platte Valley Companies, for providing advice in their areas of expertise. Any errors in this text are mine.
To Susan Wittig Albert, Laurien Berenson, Carol Cail, Carolyn Hart, Martin Hegwood, Shirley Kennett, Gillian Rogerts, and Valerie Wolzien, who read and took the time to comment on
Cold Hunter's Moon
. I cannot thank you enough.
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Zane, keep writing.
Fiction versus Reality
This is a work of fiction but Door County, Wisconsin, is real. Community agencies such as the Door County Zoning Board and the Council on Land Development mentioned in the book are fictional. The
Door County Ledger
is a fictional newspaper, and the Gibraltar State Park Golf Course is fictional. Most of the restaurants and hotels, with the exception of the Railhouse Restaurant and Dance Hall, the Horizon Resort, and the Gradoute House, are real.
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DEATH AT THE DOOR
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ISBN: 978-0-312-31809-3