Cold Killing: A Novel (41 page)

DI Sean Corrigan’s dark past has given him the ability to step into a crime scene and see it through the eyes of the offender. He understands what drives evil—but sometimes his gift seems more like a burden . . .

THE KEEPER

BY LUKE DELANEY

When a woman is kidnapped from her home, Corrigan and his homicide team are surprised to be pulled onto the case—they have no reason to believe she’s dead . . . yet. Then a body turns up in the woods. It’s not the woman they’re searching for, but someone who looks just like her.

Sean knows that it won’t be long before someone else goes missing, or until another body surfaces.

This killer is looking for the perfect woman—and when he finds her, he’s going to keep her.

Coming in January 2014

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

LUKE DELANEY
joined the Metropolitan Police Service in the late 1980s, and his first posting was to an inner-city area of South East London notorious for high levels of crime and extreme violence. He later joined the Criminal Investigations Department, where he investigated murders ranging from those committed by fledgling serial killers to gangland assassinations.

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CREDITS

Cover design by Faceout Studio, Tim Green

Cover photographs © by Gary Yeowell/Getty Images; Tobias Titz/Getty Images

COPYRIGHT

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.

COLD KILLING
. Copyright © 2013 by Luke Delaney. 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.

Epub Edition © JUNE 2013 ISBN: 9780062219473

ISBN 978-0-06-221946-6

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