Come to Harm

acknowledgments

Thanks as ever to Terri Bischoff, Nicole Nugent, Beth Hanson, Kevin Brown, Bill Krause, and everyone at Midnight Ink; Lisa Moylett, wonder agent; my family and friends, once again.

Thanks this time to Mariko Kondo and Etsuko Oishi for all matters Japanese; Jake McGaw of the New Galloway Volunteer Fire Service; and Frances at Corson’s the Bakers for the lowdown on cakes and pastries.

Special thanks are due to the fabulous Grierson Brothers (Butchers) of King Street in Castle Douglas, for advice, steak, inspiration, sausages, friendship, and knap bones.

And a lifetime of thanks to my sister Sheila, who read the first draft and encouraged me.