Authors: Lindsay Ashford
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Lindsay Ashford
was born in Wolverhampton and now lives on the coast of west Wales. She worked as a BBC journalist after becoming the first woman to graduate from Queens College, Cambridge, where she studied Criminology.
She has written three other novels in the Megan Rhys series:
Death Studies, Frozen
and
Strange Blood,
which was short-listed for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2006. All three titles are published by Honno Welsh Women’s Press and are available from all good bookshops or online at
www.honno.co.uk.
Published by Honno
‘Ailsa Craig’, Heol y Cawl, Dinas Powys
South Glamorgan, Wales, CF6 4AH
Copyright © Lindsay Ashford, 2008
The right of Lindsay Ashford to be identified as the author
of this work has been asserted in accordance with the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner.
The author would like to stress that this is a work of fiction and no resemblance to any actual individual or institution is intended or implied.
A catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library.
ISBN 978–1–906784–40–9
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Welsh Books Council
Author photograph copyright Nicola Schumacher
Cover image: Getty Images
Cover design: G Preston
Printed in Wales by Gomer