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Without Whom …
ОглавлениеIn writing this book I will have got some stuff wrong. Sometimes it’s on purpose, because I think it works better for the story, other times … well, nobody’s perfect are they? But anything I did get right is down to the following people:
Superintendent Jim Bilsland and everyone at Grampian Police who helped, but wanted to remain anonymous; Andrzej Jastrzebski from the Old Warsaw Bakery; Mark ‘Rentboy’ McHardy and Michelle Brady; Father Keith Herrera; Eryk Grasela of Crazy Tours, Krakow; Przemyslaw Biernat, who fixed a lot of my Polish; Antoni Cybulski for teaching me to swear; and the ever wonderful Ishbel Gall who knows everything there is to know about death, and isn't afraid to share. Thanks guys.
I also want to thank my agent Phil Patterson and everyone at Marjacq; my editorial ninja Sarah Hodgson (who had to put up with an awful lot to get this book finished); Jane Johnson and the rest of the team at HarperCollins; James Oswald and Allan Guthrie for their input; Hilary Brander, who appears as a character in this book because she and her husband donated a vast sum of money to Grampian Police’s Diced Cap Charity (www.dicedcap.org); everyone at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, especially the nurses and support staff in the A&E Ward and Ward 49 who looked after me during my little ‘health scare’; and Fiona and Grendel for keeping me supplied with dead rodents and cups of tea.
Oh, and the next book’s getting set in January/February – sod the tourist board, writing about all this sunshine’s making me queasy.