The Wire in the Blood (53 page)

By the same author

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The Last Temptation
The Mermaids Singing
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KATE BRANNIGAN NOVELS
Star Struck
Blue Genes
Clean Break
Crack Down
Kick Back
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LINDSAY GORDON NOVELS
Booked for Murder
Union Jack
Final Edition
Common Murder
Report for Murder

NON-FICTION
A Suitable Job for a Woman

The trilling wire in the blood
Sings below inveterate scars
Appeasing long forgotten wars.

Four Quartets,
Burnt Norton
T. S. Eliot

Copyright

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins
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in 1997

Copyright © Val McDermid 1997

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EPub Edition © 1997 ISBN: 9780007327607

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