Magnus, my lovely husband, for reading all the awful first versions.
My brave test readers Robyn Montgomery and Irina Kraft, and my awesome editors Sabrina Flynn, Nancy DeMarco, Rita Singer, and Tom Welch.
Carlina de la Cova for joyful discussions of neonate skeletonisation and 19th century postmortems, and for checking all my dissection scenes for correctness.
Eliška Frank for neonatal C2s and C3s.
Luke Kuhns for scanning 1880s Coroner case files from the London Metropolitan Archives for me. Sadly and unexpectedly, we did not find Jack the Ripper’s toe nail clippings among the files.
Pete Andrews for entrusting me with his granddad’s beautiful, old beekeeping books.
Any errors in court procedures, medical procedures, history of Victorian London, etc., are mine and can be attributed to artistic freedom or failure to detect them.
James Vincent McMorrow and Kerry Muzzey for inspiring music.