Curse of the Jade Lily (35 page)

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

DAVID HOUSEWRIGHT has worked as a journalist covering both crime and sports (sometimes simultaneously), an advertising copywriter and creative director, and a writing instructor. He has won both the Edgar Award and the Minnesota Book Award for his crime fiction. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Visit the author’s Web site at
www.davidhousewright.com
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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

THE CURSE OF THE JADE LILY
. Copyright © 2012 by David Housewright. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

www.minotaurbooks.com

Cover design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein

Cover photograph by Jason’s Travel Photography/Getty Images

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Housewright, David, 1955–

Curse of the Jade Lily: a McKenzie novel / David Housewright.—1st ed.

    p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-312-64231-0 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4668-0262-9 (e-book)

  1.  McKenzie, Mac (Fictitious character)—Fiction.   2.  Private investigators—Minnesota—Fiction.   I.  Title.

PS3558.O8668C87 2012

813'.54—dc23

2012005490

e-ISBN 9781466802629

First Edition: June 2012