JACK FREDRICKSON is the author of Honestly, Dearest, You’re Dead, a Nancy Pearl Pick, as well as A Safe Place for Dying, which was nominated for the Shamus Award. His short fiction has appeared in the acclaimed Chicago Blues, Michael Connelly’s The Blue Religion, and Charlaine Harris’s Crimes by Moonlight. He was a top pick in a recent Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine reader poll. He lives with his wife, Susan, west of Chicago, where he is president of the Friends of the Hinsdale Library, writes a newspaper column, and is at work on the next Dek Elstrom mystery.