The mystery, the people, Porthaven and everyone in it, and every choice about where the story goes and when it is finished are mine. The prose was written in collaboration with Claude, an AI system, working from my detailed scene-by-scene briefs in a voice we have shaped together over many drafts. I revised and approved every line before it reached you.
I write these books for the pleasure of the puzzle and the company of the characters, and I would rather you knew how they are made than wonder about it. A good mystery still has to play fair, hold together, and be worth your evening — and that part is down to me, wherever the sentences came from.
Frances Holcombe