Onto production with Katie Espiner (big boss), Emad Akhtar (editor and anecdote provider), Paul Stark (audio-meister), and William O’Mullane (media guru) at Orion, Steve O’Gorman (defiantly freelance copyeditor), and everyone at Subterranean Press.
In the research department we find Kirsty Potter (Northumbria Police Forensic SOCO), Clive Hall (architect), and classicist Penny Goodman from the University of Leeds. Not to mention several hundred people on Twitter who provided emergency research.
Penultimately, there are the people I lean on outrageously to insulate me from the dreadful travails of the world – Anne Hall, Genn McMenemy, Sara Baladi and Andy Ryan.
And finally my son Karifa, for his continued tolerance of my bad habits when writing (not to be confused with my bad writing habits).
Credits
Ben Aaronovitch and Gollancz would like to thank everyone at Orion who worked on the publication of What Abigail Did That Summer in the UK.
Editorial
Emad Akhtar
Brendan Durkin
Copy editor
Steve O’Gorman
Proof reader
Jane Howard
Audio
Paul Stark
Amber Bates
Contracts
Anne Goddard
Paul Bulos
Jake Alderson
Design
Lucie Stericker
Tomas Almeida
Joanna Ridley
Nick May
Editorial Management
Charlie Panayiotou
Jane Hughes
Alice Davis
Finance
Jennifer Muchan
Jasdip Nandra
Afeera Ahmed
Elizabeth Beaumont
Sue Baker
Marketing
Brittany Sankey
Production
Paul Hussey
Operations
Jo Jacobs
Sharon Willis
Lisa Pryde
Lucy Brem
Publicity
Will O’Mullane
Sales
Jen Wilson
Esther Waters
Victoria Laws
Rachael Hum
Ellie Kyrke-Smith
Frances Doyle
Georgina Cutler
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Rivers of London
Moon Over Soho
Whispers Under Ground
Broken Homes
Foxglove Summer
The Hanging Tree
Lies Sleeping
False Value
Rivers of London novellas
The Furthest Station
The October Man
Rivers of London graphic novels
Body Work
Night Witch
Black Mould
Cry Fox
Water Weed
Action at a Distance
The Fey and the Furious
Copyright
First published in Great Britain in 2021 by Gollancz
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Copyright © Ben Aaronovitch 2021
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All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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