All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to any real person, living or dead, is purely coincidental. This is for Maddie who is the constant in my life … and it’s for all the red shirted men and women I’ve been working with this summer and our extended Squires Gate family. It’s been a blast and I wouldn’t have missed it for the world. This is also for anyone who’s never been a blue, calm sea but who’s always been a storm. David was born in Derby, England in 1961 and has lived all over the UK but now he divides his time between Paris, where his partner lives, and the northwest of England. In 2009 he gave up a long career in the airline industry to concentrate on his writing ambitions. He’s now published several books including the series of crime novels featuring Detective Superintendent Jeff Barton that are set in Manchester and the series of Stephanie Marshall mysteries set in Sydney.
