What She Knew

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I am hugely grateful to the following people:

Emma Beswetherick, my brilliant editor, whose enthusiasm, support, guidance and suggestions have improved this book beyond measure. Thank you.

Caroline Kirkpatrick, Grace Menary-Winefield, Kate Doran and Victoria Gilder. Thank you so much to you all, and also to everybody else who has worked wonders on the book at Little, Brown, especially Sean Garrehy for the brilliant cover design.

Nelle Andrew, my fabulous agent, who has a very big heart. A massive thank you for taking a punt on a bit of a dodgy first draft and for contributing so much to help me turn it into something better. Big thanks too to Rachel Mills, Alexandra Cliff and Marilia Savvides at PFD.

Abbie Ross, my writing partner. Thank you so much for reading and re-reading, for tirelessly offering your comments and for the friendship along the way.

Philippa Lowthorpe. Thank you for the lengthy dog walks, for all the encouragement, and for the advice on storytelling and much more that I couldn’t have done without.

My two retired detectives. Thank you for so kindly giving up your time for coffees and a very long chat about all things police and procedure related. It was invaluable. Any errors in the book are all mine!

My parents, Jonathan and Cilla Paget. Thank you for filling my childhood home with books and encouraging me to read them.

Jules Macmillan. Thank you for all the spaghetti carbonara, and plot suggestions, for being Jim Clemo’s biggest fan and for backing the book all the way.

Rose, Max and Louis Macmillan. You’ve been brilliant, because I couldn’t have done it without your support. Thank you for that, but most of all for making me smile every day.

The following websites and papers were used as a valuable resource in this novel:

www.rcmp.gc.ca and specifically a paper available to download on that site: Dalley, Marlene L and Ruscoe, Jenna, ‘The Abduction of Children by Strangers in Canada: Nature and Scope’, National Missing Children Services, National Police Service, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, December 2003

The NISMART Bulletin Series (National Incidence Studies of Missing, Abducted, Runaway and Thrownaway Children), and especially NISMART-2, which is available to download from www.ojjdp.gov/publications, the website of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) in the US.

www.missingkids.com, the website for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in the US, and in particular the download ‘When Your Child Is Missing: A Family Survival Guide’, Missing Kids USA Parental Guide, US Department of Justice, OJJDP Report. The download is also available at www.ojjdp.gov/childabduction/publications.html.

Findlay, Preston and Lowery, Jr, Robert G (eds.), ‘Missing and Abducted Children: A Law-Enforcement Guide to Case Investigation and Program Management’, Fourth Edition, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, OJJDP Report, 2011. This is available to download from www.missingkids.com/en_US/publications/NC74.pdf.

www.missingkids.co.uk, the CEOP (UK National Crime Agency’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre) website for missing children and young people.

www.ceop.police.uk and specifically a study called ‘Taken. A study of child abduction in the UK’ by Geoff Newiss with Mary-Ann Traynor.

Boudreaux M C, Lord W D, Dutra R L, ‘Child Abduction: Aged-based Analyses of Offender, Victim, and Offense Characteristics in 550 Cases of Alleged Child Disappearance’, J Forensic Sci, 44(3), 1999