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Authors: Elizabeth Haynes

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Tricia Brassington, Jeannine Taylor, Shelagh Murry (who introduced me to NaNoWriMo in 2005 and therefore got me here in the first place), Heather Mitchell, Judy Gascho-Jutzi, and Cat Hummel all helped me to try and get Jason to speak and behave like a true Canadian. The decision to make him Canadian in the first place was all thanks to Cat—I really hope I did a good job with him.

During the editing process I decided to change the name of one of my main characters, and I turned to Facebook to help me; so I’d like to thank Chris Gage, Johanna Malin, Barb Stricsek, Lindsay Healy, Natalie Tamplin, Kate Matrunola, Sharon M. Godfrey, Jody Conklin, Jo Bober, and Becky Allatt, who all suggested that “Barbara” would be the best name for her.

I want to express my gratitude to the staff at i2 (IBM) in Cambridge, who generously gave up their time to help me produce fictional Analyst’s Notebook charts for this book. John Gresty, Ron Fitch, and Steve Dalzell looked after me and made sure I knew what I was doing with the software; Julian Midwinter, Patrick Miller, and Stephanie Juergens-Joerger worked hard to help me get the permission I needed to use the charts in the book. Most of all, I want to thank Christian McQuillan, who was the one who answered the phone to me that day and must surely have regretted it. Without doubt this book would have been a very different one without him, and I am enormously grateful for his tenacity, patience, and warmth.

As always, I’m very thankful for the support and love of my wonderful family, and especially my boys David and Alex, who put up with me. I love you lots.

About the Author

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ELIZABETH HAYNES
is a police intelligence analyst, a civilian role that involves determining patterns in offending and criminal behavior. She is the author of three previous novels:
Human Remains, Dark Tide
, and
Into the Darkest Corner
, which was selected as Amazon UK’s Best Book of 2011 and is in development with Revolution Films. She lives in a village near Maidstone, Kent, with her husband and son.

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Into the Darkest Corner

Dark Tide

Human Remains

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UNDER A SILENT MOON
. Copyright © 2014 by Elizabeth Haynes. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Originally published in a slightly different form in Great Britain in 2013 by Little, Brown.

FIRST U.S. EDITION PUBLISHED
2014

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Haynes, Elizabeth, [date]

Under a silent moon / Elizabeth Haynes.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-06-227602-5 (hardback)

EPub Edition APRIL 2014 ISBN 9780062276056

1. Women detectives—Fiction. 2. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 3. Young women—Crimes against—Fiction. 4. Psychological fiction. I. Title.

PR6108.A9677U53 2014

823’.92—dc23

2013026038