Even by my standards, Stone Bruises has been a long time coming. People who’ve helped along the way include SCF, Ben Steiner, my agents Mic Cheetham and Simon Kavanagh and all at The Marsh Agency, my editor at Transworld, Simon Taylor, and my parents, Sheila and Frank Beckett.
As ever, a huge thanks to my wife, Hilary, without whose belief, help and support this would never have been written.
Simon Beckett, September 2013