The Midnight Games

Chapter 1

Thanks to Mandie at Magicuts for steering me to the story of Evelyn d**k (who, it turns out, lived just a few blocks from my house, in the neighbourhood where the events of this book unfold). Thanks to Beverley Daurio and Maureen Cochrane for reading and responding to the manuscript at crucial junctures. Thanks to Hasti Havari Nasab for her advice on Persian culture. Please bear in mind that whenever I have been given commonsense advice with this book, I have tended to take it wherever I wanted it to go. As a result, any errors of fact, or judgement, that appear in this book are solely the author’s responsibility.