A shout out to my agent, Elizabeth Trupin-Pulli, and my editor, Carolyn Marino, for not flinching when I told them it was time to bring Lt. Joe Leaphorn back as a crime solver, and for their wise assistance in making him true to the character Tony Hillerman created thirty-some years ago. Thanks to copy editor Mary Beth Constant for her skilled work and to Rachel Elinsky, Hannah Robinson, and Tom Hoppe at HarperCollins for their assistance in bringing The Tale Teller into print.
