Barbridge, Cheshire, and the Salt City Jazzmen, to whom I hope I’ve done justice. (If the Olde Barbridge Inn doesn’t have a mummer’s play on Boxing Day, they should!)
And a special thanks to illustrator Laura Maestro, who has once again graced my book with her enchanting map.
Any mistakes I have made in procedure or geography are entirely my own.
About the Author
was born and educated in Texas.
After living in both England and Scotland, she wrote her first novel, A Share in Death, which was nominated for both an Agatha and a Macavity. Her fifth novel, Dreaming of the Bones, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and was chosen by the Independent Mystery Booksellers of America as one of the Best Crime Novels of the Century.
Her novels have been published in Japan, Ger-many, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, France, the Czech Republic, and the United Kingdom. Crombie travels to England several times a year, and has been a featured speaker at St. Hilda’s College, Oxford.
She lives in a small North Texas town, sharing a turn-of-the-century house with her husband, her seventeen-year-old daughter, three cats, and a German shepherd.
Also by
A Share in Death
All Shall Be Well
Leave the Grave Green
Mourn Not Your Dead
Dreaming of the Bones
Kissed a Sad Goodbye
A Finer End
And Justice There Is None
Now May You Weep
In a Dark House