Long Time Lost (35 page)
Authors: Chris Ewan
As ever, this book only exists because of the support and hard work of a lot of fine people. Huge thanks to my agent, Vivien Green, and the teams at Sheil Land Associates, Georges Borchardt Inc. and the RWSG Literary Agency.
To my editors, Katherine Armstrong and Angus Cargill, along with everyone at Faber & Faber.
To Louisa Kermeen (of the Milan Veterinary Practice, Douglas, Isle of Man); Gill Young, Sabine Lemmer-Brust, Dr Lucy Hanington and Dr Saleel Chandratre.
To Hart Hanson and Andrew Miller, for trusting me with their names (the fools . . .).
To Mum, Dad and Allie.
And to my wife Jo, my junior editor Jessica, and Maisie.
Chris Ewan is the award-winning author of
The Good Thief’s Guide to . . .
series of mystery novels, which are in development for US television. His debut,
The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam
, won the Long Barn Books First Novel Award and is published in thirteen countries, and was followed by
The Good Thief’s Guide to Paris
,
Vegas
,
Venice
and
Berlin
.
Born in Taunton in 1976, he now lives in Somerset with his wife, Jo, and their daughter.
Safe House
, his first stand-alone thriller, was a number-one bestseller in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.
Dead Line
was published in 2013 and is optioned for film.
Dark Tides
was shortlisted for CrimeFest’s eDunnit award for the best crime fiction ebook.
First published in the UK in 2016
by Faber & Faber Ltd
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London WC1B 3DA
This ebook edition first published in 2016
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ISBN 978–0–571–30750–0