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Chapters (61)
  1. Cover
  2. PRAISE FOR HELEN FIELDS
  3. PRAISE FOR THE SHADOW MAN
  4. Dedication
  5. Prologue
  6. Chapter One
  7. Chapter Two
  8. Chapter Three
  9. Chapter Four
  10. Chapter Five
  11. Chapter Six
  12. Chapter Seven
  13. Chapter Eight
  14. Chapter Nine
  15. Chapter Ten
  16. Chapter Eleven
  17. Chapter Twelve
  18. Chapter Thirteen
  19. Chapter Fourteen
  20. Chapter Fifteen
  21. Chapter Sixteen
  22. Chapter Seventeen
  23. Chapter Eighteen
  24. Chapter Nineteen
  25. Chapter Twenty
  26. Chapter Twenty-One
  27. Chapter Twenty-Two
  28. Chapter Twenty-Three
  29. Chapter Twenty-Four
  30. Chapter Twenty-Five
  31. Chapter Twenty-Six
  32. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  33. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  34. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  35. Chapter Thirty
  36. Chapter Thirty-One
  37. Chapter Thirty-Two
  38. Chapter Thirty-Three
  39. Chapter Thirty-Four
  40. Chapter Thirty-Five
  41. Chapter Thirty-Six
  42. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  43. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  44. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  45. Chapter Forty
  46. Chapter Forty-One
  47. Chapter Forty-Two
  48. Chapter 1
  49. Chapter 2
  50. Acknowledgements
  51. Keep Reading …
  52. And if you enjoyed The Shadow Man, you’ll love the D.I. Callanach series from Helen Fields …
  53. On a remote Highland mountain, a body is burning …
  54. Welcome to Edinburgh. Murder capital of Europe.
  55. The worst dangers are the ones we can’t see …
  56. When silence falls, who will hear their cries?
  57. Your darkest moment is your most vulnerable …
  58. He had never heard himself scream before. It was terrifying …
  59. About the Author
  60. By the same author
  61. About the Publisher
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In that instant, DCI Ava Turner made Ailsa Lambert a promise, one she intended to keep no matter the consequences or the cost.

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Acknowledgements

This book came into existence through a series of extraordinary coincidences that I would never have dared to write. When we moved to America from England one of the most painful moments was saying goodbye to my gorgeous friend Andrea Gibson who has been my beta reader and staunchest supporter since I began writing. To make our transition to the USA easier, Andrea had a friend – Matthew Sparks – from University who was living ‘somewhere in California’. It turned out, as these things do, and because statistically in a country of 320 million it was inevitable, that Andrea’s old friend lived less than a mile from our new home. In fact, I’d unknowingly met Matt’s dog in the road long before I ever met him. Matt’s wife, Marie Lewis, turned out to be a lawyer so we had a lot in common straight away (also a love of movies, cheese, dogs and cocktails which helped). Marie had a contact who had a friend working as a profiler. Emails were sent, calls were made, and THAT is how I ended up with a conference call to the FBI’s Office of Public Affairs with SSA Jeffrey Heinze and the lovely SSA Molly Amman, to whom I am extraordinarily grateful.

You can research to a good level for books like these, but you really can’t pick up the language, the processes and insider knowledge, without first-hand contact. I sent my idea for the book off, and Molly came back with a detailed appraisal of how she would approach the case. It was absolutely invaluable. So to all the people named above, thank you. Not just for this, but for all the love and laughs and support. You all know how invaluable you’ve been in this last year.

Of course, back in England, there was still a whole team of people guiding me. My first port of call for the idea for The Shadow Man was my amazing literary agent, Caroline Hardman. She picked up the pieces of it, polished them and made them look presentable (none of this without her), and passed it along to my publisher. The Avon imprint of HarperCollins is full of dedicated, passionate hard-working book obsessives. There are a lot of people to name and I won’t apologise for that. Books, in spite of their small size, are giant feats of creation. Thank you to Phoebe Morgan who has never once rolled her eyes at me, even though she would have been entitled to a thousand times. To Helen Huthwaite, Sabah Khan, Oliver Malcolm, Bethany Wickington, Ellie Pilcher, Caroline Bovey, Claire Ward, Holly MacDonald, Hannah O’Brien – know that I think you’re all amazing, and that I appreciate every last one of you.