Land Rites (Detective Ford) Andy Maslen (best pdf reader for ebooks .TXT) 📖

want to thank you for buying this book. I hope you enjoyed it. As an author is only part of the team of people who make a book the best it can be, this is my chance to thank the people on my team.

For being my first readers, Sarah Hunt and Jo Maslen.

For sharing their knowledge and experience of The Job, former and current police officers Andy Booth, Ross Coombs, Jen Gibbons, Neil Lancaster, Sean Memory, Trevor Morgan, Olly Royston, Chris Saunby, Ty Tapper, Sarah Warner and Sam Yeo.

For sharing his knowledge of the gamekeeper’s life and calendar, Tim Weston of the National Gamekeepers’ Organisation.

For helping me stay reasonably close to medical reality as I devise gruesome ways of killing people, Martin Cook, Melissa Davies, Arvind Nagra and Katie Peace.

For sharing their insights into autistic spectrum disorder, Amanda J. Harrington; and childhood anxiety and resilience, Dr Hazel Harrison.

For lending Hannah’s cat her name, Uta Frith, Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development at UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.

For her advice on strategies for detecting lies, Professor Dawn Archer, Research and Knowledge Exchange Coordinator for Languages, Information and Communications, Manchester Metropolitan University.

For their patience, professionalism and friendship, the fabulous publishing team at Thomas & Mercer: Jack Butler, Gill Harvey, Russel McLean and Gemma Wain. For his fantastic, evocative cover, Dominic Forbes.

And for being a daily inspiration and source of love and laughter, and making it all worthwhile, my family: Jo, Rory and Jacob.

The responsibility for any and all mistakes in this book remains mine. I assure you, they were unintentional.

Andy Maslen, Salisbury, 2021

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Andy Maslen was born in Nottingham, England. After leaving university with a degree in psychology, he worked in business for thirty years as a copywriter. In his spare time, he plays blues guitar. He lives in Wiltshire.