Loving Time

The highest praise for Leslie Glass and

hanging time

“Hanging Time is one terrific read and Leslie Glass is one terrific writer.”

—Tami Hoag

“Gripping psychological drama … There’s no straight path to the truth when information is manipulated and withheld on all sides.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Polished and intriguing … Glass not only draws the reader into the crazed and gruesome world of the killer, but also cleverly develops the character of Woo … and her growing attraction for partner Sanchez.”

—The Orlando Sentinel

“Fine psychodrama. Glass walks on the noir side.”

—Booknews from the Poisoned Pen

“Complex insights … Deft plotting and strong characterizations will leave readers eager for further installments.”

—Library Journal

“I’ll drop what I’m doing to read Leslie Glass anytime.”

—Nevada Barr

also by leslie glass

HANGING TIME

BURNING TIME

TO DO NO HARM

MODERN LOVE

GETTING AWAY WITH IT

STEALING TIME

TRACKING TIME

JUDGING TIME

LOVING TIME

A Bantam Book

Bantam hardcover edition / November 1996

Bantam paperback edition / December 1997

All rights reserved.

Copyright © 1996 by Leslie Glass.

For Edmond and the Graduates

JHU

and

RCS

Class of 1996

acknowledgments

Readers are often surprised to learn that it takes almost a year for a manuscript to travel from an author’s desk through its many stages of production until it finally becomes the book they’ve been waiting to buy. The process begins with editorial Close Encounters of the Third Kind, moves right along through many scheduling, marketing, promotion, and sales conferences. The pages themselves go through a complicated copyediting, production, book design, and printing process. Meanwhile, the difficult packaging decisions are made and realized, the cover design, cover art, and copy are completed.

A beautifully produced book is the author’s dearest wish. For fulfillment, it requires the work of dozens of gifted people. Bantam has an editorial, production, packaging, marketing, and promotion dream team. Thank you especially, the truly daring and visionary Publisher, Irwyn Applebaum, and world’s most challenging and supportive Associate Publisher—my brilliant editor—Kate Miciak. Thank you Managing Editor Susie West for production orchestration; Jamie Warren Youll for gorgeous cover designs, Betsy Hulsebosch for marketing, Barbara Burg for publicity, and my publicist, Susan Corcoran. Thank you Linda Biagi for foreign sales.

But, wait a minute! Before a single book can appear in a store, another powerful group of Bantam people have to go to work: The Mighty Bantam Sales Force, which comprises the true, and not-often-enough-sung, heroes of publishing. This is the Force to which we authors pray every night: “May the Force be with me.” Thank you especially, Sally Johnson, Central District Manager, who said the magic words at the right moment, as well as Bantam Salesperson Cinda Van Deursen in the Eastern District; David Glenn and A. Scott LePine in the Western District. Thank you Telemarketers and those in Special Markets and National Accounts, and everybody else who gets those books out there and tells them not to come home again.

For help with the fictional Psychiatric Centre in LOVING TIME, and the field of psychiatry, thanks to Richard C. Friedman, M.D., gender expert, psychology professor, and consultant extraordinaire.

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?

Or wilt thou go ask the Mole?

Can wisdom be put in a silver rod?

Or Love in a golden bowl?

thel’s motto

William Blake

raymond