10 - James Patterson

115 Pages·2011·9.97 MB·English

10t h
Anniversary
The Women’s Murder Club
10th Anniversary (with Maxine Paetro)
The 9th Judgment (with Maxine Paetro)
The 8th Confession (with Maxine Paetro)
7th Heaven (with Maxine Paetro)
The 6th Target (with Maxine Paetro)
The 5th Horseman (with Maxine Paetro)
4th of July (with Maxine Paetro)
3rd Degree (with Andrew Gross)
2nd Chance (with Andrew Gross)
1st to Die
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10
th
Anniversary
James Patterson
AND
Maxine Paetro
LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY
NEW YORK BOSTON LONDON
Copyright © 2011 by James Patterson
Excerpt from N ow You See Her copyright © 2011 by James Patterson
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First Edition: May 2011
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Patterson, James
10th anniversary / James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. — 1 st ed.
p. cm. — ( Women’s Murder Club)
ISBN 978-0-316-03626-9 (hc) / 978-0-316-17803-7 (large print)
1. Women detectives — C alifornia — S an Francisco — Fiction. 2. Public
prosecutors — C alifornia — S an Francisco — F iction. 3. Teenage girls —
Crimes against — F iction. 4. Husbands — C rimes against — F iction. 5. Missing
children — Fiction. 6. San Francisco (Calif.) — F iction. I. Paetro, Maxine.
II. Title. III. Title: Tenth anniversary.
PS3566.A822A618 2011
813'.54 — d c22 2010046953
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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Printed in the United States of America
For Isabelle Patterson
and Madeline Paetro

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