ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Dublin Driver books are great fun to write, and about 85 percent of the time I’m confident of my use of Hibernian English in them. The other 15 percent of the time I spend texting “would you say this or that” to my Irish-born friends and getting a consensus on my phrasing. In that light, thanks are due to Brian Nisbet, Fionnuala Murphy, Kate Sheehy, my Lady Writers Ruth, Sarah, and Susan, and probably about eleventy other people I’m forgetting.

Thanks are also due to my editor, Elizabeth May, and to artist Anne Wertheim, along with the Kensington art department for guiding the cover art for these books along such charming lines.

And I couldn’t write these books (or any others!) without a family who makes sure I can hide away to write, so as always, all my love to Ted, Henry, and my dad.