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- Villain
- Caro Savage
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- Acknowledgments
- More from Caro Savage
- About the Author
- About Boldwood Books
But then on the other hand… better safe than sorry.
Bailey clicked the ‘send’ button on the email, sat back in the chair and waited for the shit to hit the fan.
Acknowledgments
All of the team at Boldwood Books for their exceptional and meticulous work at all stages of the publication process and their boundless drive and enthusiasm in successfully bringing this novel to market.
Dorie Simmonds, my agent, for her unfailingly good advice, professional acumen and willingness to provide incisive and comprehensive feedback on my writing.
Dr Malcolm Campbell for his invaluable information about the medicine and procedures surrounding cancer treatment and end-of-life care.
Claire, my wife, for her unstinting support, sparkling company and her outstanding and honest appraisal of my work.
I read plenty of non-fiction books as part of my research into this novel. If I were to pick out a few to recommend, then Good Cop, Bad War by Neil Woods, Undercover by Joe Carter, and Undercover by Pete Ashton are all fascinating reads in terms of understanding the mindset and dangers involved in undercover policing, and the books of Wensley Clarkson provide a gripping and informative insight into the landscape and characters of the UK underworld.
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The clank sounded out of place.
Alice Jenkins stopped pushing the laundry trolley and lifted her head. She tossed her long reddish-blonde hair out of her face.
‘Hey, who’s there?’
She was answered only by the repetitive groaning of the huge industrial washing machines and dryers which lined both sides of the prison laundry.
She peered uncertainly into the shadows beyond the giant wire racks, which held folded piles of freshly laundered bedding and towels. Down here in the basement there were no windows and the overhead strip lighting flickered with a sickly insipid yellow which failed to illuminate the room properly.
Alice had only started her job in the laundry two days before. Normally there were other inmates working in here, but this afternoon she was all alone. That was because she’d volunteered to do some overtime, explaining to the laundry supervisor that she wanted to earn a little extra cash for her canteen account.
She hadn’t been in prison for very long. Just a few weeks. She’d been sent down for benefit fraud. Not a major crime but enough to land her inside for a year and three months. But she seemed to be getting the hang of things. Like managing to get this job in the laundry.