The Blue Bar (Blue Mumbai #1)(103)

Very grateful to Neil D’Silva and Sarika Joshi, who verified Mumbai locations and other details. Eric Lahti and Kirsten Moore lent their expertise on the fight scenes and made them so much more plausible.

The narrative is fictional and embellished, and all errors of research are mine.

J. L. Delozier, Sommer Schafer, Rae Joyce, and Zoe Quinton helped read early drafts. My awesome agent Lucienne Diver deserves an acknowledgment page all her own. My wonderful editor Jessica Tribble made the book shine, with help from Charlotte Herscher, Rachael Herbert, Sharon Turner Mulvihill, Elizabeth J. Asborno, Michael Jantze, Sarah Shaw, and others on the dream team at Thomas & Mercer who brought this book into the world. Amanda Hudson at Faceout Studio created the lovely cover.

Special thanks also to the 22 Debuts group, who have provided wisdom and backup, and Sunny Kumar, my yoga guru, who keeps me functional and sane.

The hugest gratitude goes to the readers who have reviewed advance copies, spoken of The Blue Bar on social media, and generally made me feel like less of a fraud.

My family has been an enormous source of support, but I wouldn’t be an author without Swarup Biswas, my husband, best friend, and the love of my life.