Settled Blood (44 page)

MARI HANNAH
was born in London and moved north as a child. Her career as a probation officer was cut short when she was injured while on duty, and thereafter she spent several years as a film/television screenwriter. She now lives in Northumberland with her partner, an ex-murder detective. She was the winner of the 2010 Northern Writers’ Award and is a nominee for the 2013 Polari First Book Prize.

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Deadly Deceit

The Murder Wall

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

First published 2012 in the UK by Pan Books, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited.

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Deadly Deceit
copyright © 2013 by Mari Hannah.

SETTLED BLOOD
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EPub Edition DECEMBER 2013 ISBN: 9780062323514

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