Skeleton Justice (29 page)
Authors: Michael Baden,Linda Kenney Baden
Tags: #Fiction, #Thrillers, #General
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We want to continue to thank, from the bottom of our hearts, the many people whose help has allowed Manny, Jake, and Mycroft’s relationship to flourish in print. We would be remiss if we did not also thank the best veterinarian in the world, Dr. Lewis Berman of Park East Animal Hospital in New York City, who ensures that Mycroft remains healthy, and Dr. Avra Frucht, who ensures Mycroft’s pearly whites stay white. We also thank our dear friends, Judge Haskell Pitluck (ret.) and his wonderful wife, Kay, who read and reread every draft of this novel.
Bar none, the best assistant in the world, Patricia Hulbert, and her family, Todd, TJ, Amanda, and Christina, who support us in all our endeavors, deserve a special mention apart from all others.
Obviously, our agent, Leigh Feldman, along with our publisher, Knopf, and the entire team assigned to ensure the success of Manny and Jake, especially Jordan Pavlin, our editor; Erinn Hartman, our publicist; Leslie Levine, our contact extraordinaire; and our remarkable copy editor, Carol Edwards, and production editor, Maria Massey—whose skills make us look good.
As usual, we could not function without the support and encouragement of our many author friends—Ann Rule, Linda Fairstein, Kathy Reichs—just to name a few. To our handlers Maria Lago, Sondra Elkins, Colin Lively, Pilar and Paul Conceicao, and Michael Greenfield, we thank you again for your unending loyalty and support.
We want to thank Marco Pipolo and his staff at Scalinatella for their never-ending hospitality in providing the backdrop for the Italian food and heritage that has made it into our novels.
Finally, we thank our families, including our children, Christopher, Trissa, Lindsey, Sara, Sarah, and our grandchildren; along with the many forgotten families in the world, for both the inspiration and story line embodied in
Skeleton Justice
.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Michael Baden, M.D., is one of America’s leading forensic experts. He is the host
of Autopsy
, the HBO hit documentary series. He has investigated the deaths of many, ranging from President John F. Kennedy, Rev. Martin Luther King, and Tsar Nicholas II and the Romanov family to John Belushi and Billy Martin. He has served as an expert witness in countless criminal cases, including the trials of Claus von Bulow and O. J. Simpson. He has been a consulting forensic pathologist to the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the FBI, and the Russian government, as well as a visiting professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Albany Medical College, and New York Law School.
Linda Kenney Baden is a trial attorney who has won dozens of civil rights lawsuits, participated in many high-profile criminal cases, and has appeared as a guest legal commentator on numerous television networks.
They are married and live in New York City with their dog, Mycroft.
THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2009 by Michael Baden and Linda Kenney Baden
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada
by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
www.aaknopf.com
Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Baden, Michael M.
Skeleton justice : a novel / Michael Baden & Linda Kenney —1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-27204-1
1. Forensic pathologists—Fiction. 2. Women lawyers—Fiction.
3. New York (State)—Fiction. I. Kenney, Linda, 1953-II. Title.
PS3602.A358S56
2009
813′.6—dc22 2008054394
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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