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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Arlidge, M. J., author.

Title: Hide and seek / M. J. Arlidge.

Description: Berkley trade paperback edition. | New York: Berkley, 2017. |

Series: A Helen Grace thriller; 6

Identifiers: LCCN 2017011826 (print) | LCCN 2017017408 (ebook) | ISBN

9780399586859 (ebook) | ISBN 9780399586842 (softcover)

Subjects: LCSH: Women detectives—Fiction. | Policewomen—Fiction. |

Prisoners—Fiction. | Murder—Investigation—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION/

Suspense. | FICTION/Thrillers. | GSAFD: Suspense fiction. | Mystery fiction.

Classification: LCC PR6051.R55 (ebook) | LCC PR6051.R55 H53 2017 (print) |

DDC 823/.914—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017011826

Penguin Group (UK) trade paperback edition / December 2016

Berkley trade paperback edition / October 2017

Cover art: building © Nicola Smith/Trevillion Images; barbed wire by Blur Day Blur Night/Shutterstock Images; figure by Felix Mzioznikov/Shutterstock Images

Cover design by Colleen Reinhart

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, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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