Huge thanks to Victoria Haslam, my Thomas & Mercer editor and champion. It’s so much fun working with you and I love everything you’ve done for me and this book.
Possibly the biggest thanks ever go to my developmental editor Russel McLean – who pulled the charred bones of this book from the wreckage and helped me to see what it was meant to be. Me and Jessica are forever in your debt.
I probably wouldn’t have finished this book without the support of my crime writing crew, who shall remain anonymous in case I forget someone.
Thank you to my readers – the bloggers, the reviewers, the reading champions. Everything I do, I do it for you . . .
Massive thanks to Catherine Baxendale, for generously bidding for her name in the book via last year’s CLIC Sargent auction, and for her lovely seahorse gift that I know was very traumatic to purchase. Two things I love about Cat – she has a phobia of seahorses （try wedging that into an Alpine-set thriller）， and her maiden name is Holliday!
As always, thank you to my friends and family for their constant love and support.
And finally, to JLOH . . . from the bottom of my pencil case.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Susi Holliday grew up near Edinburgh and worked in the pharmaceutical industry for many years before she started writing. A lifelong fan of crime and horror, her short stories have been published in various places, and she was shortlisted for the inaugural CWA Margery Allingham Prize. She is the acclaimed author of nine novels and a novella. The film adaptation of her Trans-Siberian-set psychological thriller Violet is currently in development.
As well as working, reading, writing, walking and drinking tea, Susi provides mentoring for new crime writers via www.crimefictioncoach.com.
You can find out more at her website, www.susiholliday.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/SJIHolliday, on Twitter @SJIHolliday, and on Instagram @susijholliday.