Authors: Hank Phillippi Ryan
The Other Woman (46 page)
The inspiration of David Morrell, Mary Jane Clark, Jim Huang, Marianne Mancusi, Suzanne Brockmann, Kaye Barley, Carla Neggers, and Robert B. Parker.
Sue Grafton. And Lisa Scottoline. And Lee Child. Words fail me. (I know, a first.)
My dear posse at Sisters in Crime. Thank you. And at Mystery Writers of America, the dolphin gang: Reed Farrel Coleman, Jessie Lourey, Larry Light, and Margery Flax.
My amazing blog sisters. At Jungle Red Writers: Julia Spencer-Fleming, Hallie Ephron, Rosemary Harris, Roberta Isleib/Lucy Burdette, Jan Brogan, Deborah Crombie, and Rhys Bowen. At Femmes Fatales: Charlaine Harris, Dana Cameron, Kris Neri, Mary Saums, Toni Kelner, Elaine Viets, and Donna Andrews. At Lipstick Chronicles: Nancy Martin and Harley Jane Kozak, who brought us all together.
Ken Schanzer and Jim Flug and Tom Sussman and Terry Straub, my political mentors from way back.
My dear friends Amy Isaac, Mary Schwager, and Katherine Hall Page; and my darling sister, Nancy Landman.
Dad—who loves every moment of this. (Mom—Missing you, and using cucumbers.)
And Jonathan, of course, who never complained about all the pizza.
(I’ve tweaked Boston geography a bit to protect the innocent. And I love readers who read the acknowledgments. Thanks to you all.)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A former U.S. Senate staffer and political campaign aide, Hank Phillippi Ryan is the investigative reporter for Boston’s NBC affiliate, and has won twenty-eight Emmys and ten Edward R. Murrow Awards for her reporting. A bestselling author of four mystery novels, Ryan has won the Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards. She is on the national board of directors of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. Visit her on the Web at
www.hankphillippiryan.com
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
THE OTHER WOMAN
Copyright © 2012 by Hank Phillippi Ryan
All rights reserved.
Cover photograph © Andy & Michelle Kerry/Trevillion Images
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ISBN 978-0-7653-3257-8 (hardcover)
ISBN 9781466800861 (e-book)
First Edition: September 2012