One wrong turn, p.28
One Wrong Turn, page 28
Beth de Guzman, Kirsiah Depp, Karen Kosztolnyik and the entire team at Grand Central Publishing.
Camilla Bolton, my agent, and the crew at Darley Anderson Agency & Associates, including Jade Kavanagh, Mary Darby, Georgia Fuller, Francesca Edwards and Sheila David.
Sylvie Rabineau at WME.
Clare Donoghue, Claire Douglas, Andrew Haddock, Gilly Macmillan, Greg Norton, Matt Whitlock and Tim Weaver.
As well as Mum (and Poppy!), Allie, Jessica, Jack and my wife, Jo.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
C. M. Ewan is a pseudonym for Chris Ewan, the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of many mystery and thriller novels. Chris’s first standalone thriller, Safe House, was a bestseller in the UK and was shortlisted for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. He is also the author of the thrillers Dead Line, Dark Tides, Long Time Lost, A Window Breaks, The Interview and The House Hunt, as well as the Good Thief’s Guide series of mystery novels. The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam won the Long Barn Books First Novel Award and has been published in thirteen countries. Chris lives with his wife and their two children in Somerset, where he writes full time.
Also by C. M. Ewan
A Window Breaks
The Interview
The House Hunt
Writing as Chris Ewan
Safe House
Dead Line
Dark Tides
Long Time Lost
The Good Thief’s Guide series
The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam
The Good Thief’s Guide to Paris
The Good Thief’s Guide to Vegas
The Good Thief’s Guide to Venice
The Good Thief’s Guide to Berlin
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C. M. Ewan, One Wrong Turn
