Confessions: The Private School Murders (44 page)

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Cover

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Welcome

Prologue

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Confession

1 : Dead Reckoning

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Confession

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2 : Shadows of the Past

Confession

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3 : The Storm after the Calm

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4 : The Grandest Gongo of them all

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Confession

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About the author

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Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Copyright © 2013 James Patterson

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Confessions of a Murder Suspect
Copyright © 2012 James Patterson

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First ebook edition: October 2013

ISBN 978-0-316-20766-9

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