Authors: Hilary Bonner
Death Comes First (43 page)
Nobby Clarke’s grin widened.
‘I’m joking, you bloody fool!’ she said. ‘You didn’t think I was that drunk, did you?’
Vogel had a feeling he should be insulted. Mostly he was relieved.
‘Of course not, boss,’ he said.
Acknowledgements
Grateful thanks to:
Former Avon and Somerset Constabulary Detective Inspector Stephen Bishop, Incident Room Manager of the Bristol-based Brunel Major Crime Investigation Team; former Avon and Somerset Constabulary Detective Sergeant Frank Waghorn; and Pip Hall, of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
Plus, of course, Wayne, Anne and all the team at Pan Mac, Tony, and Amanda. As ever.
Death
Comes
First
Hilary Bonner is a full-time author and former chairman of The Crime Writers’ Association. Her published work includes eleven previous novels, five non-fiction books: two ghosted autobiographies, one biography, two companions to TV programmes, and a number of short stories. She is a former Fleet Street journalist, Show Business Editor of three national newspapers and Assistant Editor of one. She now lives primarily in the West of England where she was born and brought up and where most of her novels are set.
BY HILARY BONNER
Fiction
The Cruelty of Morning
A Fancy to Kill For
A Passion So Deadly
For Death Comes Softly
A Deep Deceit
A Kind of Wild Justice
A Moment of Madness
When the Dead Cry Out
No Reason to Die
The Cruellest Game
Friends to Die For
Death Comes First
Non-Fiction
René and Me
(with Gorden Kaye)
Benny: The True Story
(with Dennis Kirkland)
It’s Not a Rehearsal
(with Amanda Barrie)
Journeyman
(with Clive Gunnell)
Heartbeat: The Real Life Story
First published 2015 by Pan Books
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ISBN 978-1-4472-7211-3
Copyright © Hilary Bonner 2015
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