<meta content="Cocoa HTML Writer" name="Generator"/> <meta content="1348.17" name="CocoaVersion"/> <link href="css/stylesheet6.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:2b8bd44b-7654-4f96-9967-69c48091a737" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <p class="p1"><b><a id="doc7"/></b></p> <p class="p2"><b/><br/></p> <p class="p1"><b>Author’s Note</b></p> <p class="p3"><br/></p> <p class="p3"><br/></p> <p class="p4">This is the ninth book in the DCI Brendan Moran series. I try to write each one so that it can be read in isolation from the other books without troubling the reader too much about past events. Sure, it would help if you’ve read the previous two books, <i>When Stars Grow Dark</i> and <i>The Cold Light of Death</i> but if you haven’t it’s not too much of a problem – <i>Closer to the Dead </i>will work just fine on its own – although you might be tempted to backtrack to the earlier books in the series when you’ve finished!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p3"><br/></p> <p class="p4">Having said all that, I thought it might be a good idea to provide a short character outline to help you out – you’ll find it at the end of the book.</p> <p class="p3"><br/></p> <p class="p4">SH<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p class="p4">December 2021</p> </body> </html>