Cross-Stitch Before Dying (23 page)

As always, I must thank
God first and foremost. I also thank my beautiful family—Tim, Lianna, and Nicholas. Thanks to Cooper for being my furry therapist. I’d like to thank my editor, Jessica Wade, my agent, Robert Gottlieb, and his assistant, Adrienne Lombardo.

Special thanks go out to Laurent Legendre of Le P’tit Laurent in San Francisco, who graciously allowed his restaurant to be featured in this book; and to D. P. Lyle, MD, author of
The
Writer’s Forensics Blog
, award-winning novelist and television consultant.

Amanda Lee
lives in southwest Virginia with her husband and two beautiful children, a boy and a girl. She’s a full-time writer/editor/mom/wife and chief cook and bottle washer, and she loves every minute of it. Okay, not the bottle washing so much, but the rest of it is great.