Irv was singing “Somebody’s Knocking” by Terri Gibbs (1980).
The quote from House is from episode #202. That aired in 2005, not 2008 as Melinda was watching it. As a novelist, I occasionally take some liberties with reality. I consider this fair because reality has taken some liberties with me.
I have messed around with the geography but not—I hope—the essence and feeling of upstate New York. Sometimes one needs to pull back to see more clearly.
Morten’s duck was named after Ferdinand from the movie Babe and, later, Babe: Pig in the City. That was one funny duck.
The SWAT team members were discussing the film The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), directed by Julian Schnabel.
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics at the U.S. Department of Justice, only 7 percent of full-time sworn law enforcement officers in medium-sized sheriffs’ offices were women in 2007. In small offices, this dropped to 4 percent (www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/wle8708.pdf). In Norway, some 45 percent of employees in the police force are women and the number of female managers and leaders is going up. Thanks to (Senior Norwegian police officer) Cecilie Lilaas-Skari for answering important questions for me. Any errors here are clearly her fault and you should probably call her directly.
In 2014, Jefferson County, New York, elected the first woman sheriff in the history of the state.
The motto of the New York state police really is Excellence Through Knowledge and has been since 1917. I think it should be adopted nationally and used as a beacon for progress.
Sigourney Weaver: Please forgive me.
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About the Author
DEREK B. MILLER has worked in international peace and security for think tanks, diplomatic missions, and the United Nations. He is the author of two novels, Norwegian by Night—which won the Crime Writers’ Association’s John Creasey Dagger Award, was an Indies Choice Honor Book, and was included in the The Millions’ “Hall of Fame”—and The Girl in Green, which was a Shelf Awareness “Best Book of the Year” and a finalist for the Gold Dagger. He lives in Oslo, Norway.
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