The Restless Dead

Acknowledgements

It’s been a longer than anticipated gap between the previous David Hunter novel and The Restless Dead. A number of people and organizations helped along the way. Thanks are due to Tim Thompson, Professor of Applied Biological Anthropology at Teesside University; Tony Cook, the National Crime Agency’s Head of Operations at CEOP; Patricia Wiltshire, Professor of Forensic Ecology at Southampton University; Dr Martin Hall, Research Entomologist at the National History Museum; Essex Police Press Office; Kay West, former president of transgender support group the Beaumont Society; GIRES (Gender Identity Research and Education Society); and Robin Adcroft, chairman of sea fort renovation group Project Redsand Trust. Without their assistance with factual aspects of the story, The Restless Dead would be a poorer novel. It goes without saying that any errors or inaccuracies are my fault, not theirs.

Thanks also to my agents Gordon Wise and Melissa Pimentel at Curtis Brown, my editor Simon Taylor and the team at Transworld, my German editor Ulrike Beck and all at Rowohlt, my parents Frank and Sheila Beckett, my sister Julie for the dog food cake, Ben Steiner and SCF.

Finally, as ever a heartfelt thank you to my wife Hilary, for being there with me throughout.