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Copyright © 2016 by David Mark

Previously published in Great Britain in 2016 by Mulholland Books, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, an Hachette UK company

First Blue Rider Press edition: May 2018

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Mark, David John, author.

Title: Dead pretty / David Mark.

Description: New York : Blue Rider Press, 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017049017 | ISBN 9780399185151 (paperback) | ISBN 9780399185168 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Detectives—Fiction. | Police—England—Fiction. | Murder—Investigation—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural. | GSAFD: Suspense fiction | Mystery fiction.

Classification: LCC PR6113.A7527 D43 2018 | DDC 823/.92—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017049017

p. cm.

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

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