And then, too soon, the song was over. The sun was down. And it was, Bell knew, time to go home.
ALSO BY JULIA KELLER
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About the Author
JULIA KELLER spent twelve years as a reporter and editor for the Chicago Tribune, where she won a Pulitzer Prize. A recipient of a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, she was born in West Virginia and lives in Chicago and Ohio.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Keller, Julia.
pages cm.—(Bell Elkins novels; 3)
ISBN 978-1-250-04473-0 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4668-4318-9 (e-book)
1. Women private investigators—Fiction. 2. Murder—Fiction. 3. West Virginia—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3611.E4245S86 2014
813'.6—dc23
eISBN 9781466843189
First Edition: August 2014