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Authors: Jeffery Deaver

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Dedication

Copyright

Also by Jeffery Deaver

To Frank, Maureen and Caitlyn Jewett

First published in the United States of America in 2013 by Grand Central Publishing

 

First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Hodder & Stoughton

An Hachette UK company

 

Text and photographs copyright © Gunner Publications, LLC 2013

 

The right of Jeffery Deaver to be identified as the Author of the Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

 

All rights reserved.
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

 

All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental.

 

A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British Library

 

ISBN 978 1 444 78045 1

 

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Also by Jeffery Deaver

 

Mistress of Justice

The Lesson of Her Death

Praying for Sleep

Speaking in Tongues

A Maiden’s Grave

The Devil’s Teardrop

The Blue Nowhere

Garden of Beasts

The Bodies Left Behind

Edge

 

The Rune Series

Manhattan is My Beat

Death of a Blue Movie Star

Hard News

 

The Location Scout Series

Shallow Graves

Bloody River Blues

Hell’s Kitchen

 

The Lincoln Rhyme Thrillers

The Bone Collector

The Coffin Dancer

The Empty Chair

The Stone Monkey

The Vanished Man

The Twelfth Card

The Cold Moon

The Broken Window

The Burning Wire

The Kill Room

 

The Kathryn Dance Thrillers

The Sleeping Doll

Roadside Crosses

XO

 

A James Bond Novel

Carte Blanche

 

Short Stories

Twisted

More Twisted

Jeffery Deaver

 

THE OCTOBER LIST

 

 

www.hodder.co.uk

Table of Contents

Title Page

Epigraph

Chapter 36. Sam’s Last Drink

Chapter 35. Daniel’s Mausoleum

Chapter 34. The Judas Pour

Chapter 33. Misfire

Chapter 32. Scent Memory

Chapter 31. Gabriela’s Wednesdays

Chapter 30. Out of Sight

Chapter 29. Crime Scene II

Chapter 28. Frank’s Second Present

Chapter 27. No Good Deed

Chapter 26. Deacon Hal

Chapter 25. Rorschach

Chapter 24. Morning After, No. 2

Chapter 23. Fashionista

Chapter 22. Waking Alone

Chapter 21. The Warrior

III . Sunday

Chapter 20. A Good Judge

Chapter 19. Sweet Dreams

Chapter 18. Scavenger Hunt

Chapter 17. The Victim

Chapter 16. Escape

Chapter 15. Crime Scene I

Chapter 14. Daniel’s First Job, circa 1998

Chapter 13. Intimate

Chapter 12. Childless

Chapter 11. Doll

Chapter 10. Central Park

Chapter 9. Sarah

Chapter 8. Morning After, No. 1

II . Saturday

Chapter 7. Witness to the Seduction

Chapter 6. Rope, Sweat, Pain

Chapter 5. Where Her Victims Lie

Chapter 4. Fender Bender

Chapter 3. Fetish

Chapter 2. Gabriela

Chapter 1. Plotting

I . Friday

Foreword

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Dedication

Copyright

Also by Jeffery Deaver

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