Sleeping Cruelty

Acknowledgements

My sincere thanks go to Suzanne Baboneau and Ian Chapman at Simon and Schuster for their constant support in my current and past novels. I am very fortunate to have a strong team at La Plante Productions, Liz Thorburn, Callum Sutherland and Richard Dobbs-Grove who keep me on my toes. Sleeping Cruelty had some very steamy scenes that were deleted at the request of my agent Gill Coleridge, who, like my team, is forever a brilliant and diplomatic censor, and a strong guide to what my fans would feel inappropriate.

I want to make it very clear that all characters and events in this book are fictional. Any resemblance between them and real characters is coincidental and is not intended.

I would also like to thank the following for their generous contribution: Juliet Battersby, Bulgari, Hugo Waring for his wine expertise, Professor John Henry at the Poison Unit at St Mary’s Paddington, the Ritz, West Indies Tourist Office, British Virgin Islands Tourist Office, French Antilles Tourist Office and the Necker Island Office.