'Your mother teach you that, Fred?' I asked him. I knew the words to the old song: 'Sing, don't cry. Because by singing, the sky lightens and becomes beautiful.'
I glanced into the rearview mirror and was startled to see that Brinkley was looking at the reflection of my eyes. He stopped singing and said in a loud stage whisper, 'Hey, Lindsay, you really think you've got me?'
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Our thanks and gratitude to these top professionals, who were so generous with their time and expertise: author and psychiatrist Dr. Maria Paige; Dr. Humphrey Germaniuk, forensic pathologist and ME of Trumbull County, Ohio; top cop Captain Richard Conklin, Stamford, Connecticut, PD; Allen Ross, MD, Montague, Massachusetts; and legal experts Philip Hoffman, New York City; Melody Fujimori, San Francisco; and criminal defense attorney extraordinaire Mickey Sherman, Stamford, Connecticut.
And special thanks to our excellent researchers, Don MacBain, Ellie Shurtleff, and Lynn Colomello.
About the Authors
JAMES PATTERSON is one of the best-known and best-selling writers of all time. He is the author of the two top-selling new detective series of the past decade: the Alex Cross novels, including
MAXINE PAETRO is a novelist and journalist. She lives with her husband in New York.
