All Saints

Acknowledgements

AcknowledgementsAll Saints, Murder on the Mersey is the second book in my Mersey Mysteries series and owes its existence to a number of people who were invaluable to me in bringing the book to life.

First and foremost, my thanks must go to Miika Hannila at Next Chapter Publishing, whose faith in, and enthusiasm for the first book in this series, A Mersey Killing, inspired me to decide to create a series of books based on the cases of Detective Inspector Andy Ross and Sergeant Clarissa, (Izzie) Drake.

Thanks also to Debbie Poole of Liverpool, who so enjoyed A Mersey Killing that she contacted me to volunteer her services as a beta reader for All Saints. She has done a fantastic job and she has earned my gratitude for her diligence and attention to detail, not to mention the laughter we've enjoyed along the way at one or two hilarious typos she's picked up during the process, e.g. 'hysterical window,' where I of course meant 'hysterical widow'. Thank you, Debbie.

As always I have to thank my dear wife for her patience and her patient checking of each chapter as it was written, and also a big thank you to fellow author, Carole Gill, who helped me enormously during a potentially catastrophic computer breakdown, and provided her usual support at times when my muse threatened to desert me.

Finally, my thanks go to the members of my family, mostly and very sadly no longer with us, in the great city of Liverpool, upon whom many of the characters in the book are based. I should also say a thank you to the people of Liverpool, my ancestral home town. It took me many years to finally get around to setting one of my books in the city, but since writing A Mersey Killing, I've received so much wonderful feedback from the people of Liverpool by way of reviews and messages that I wish I'd done it years ago.