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Copyright © 2016 by Mondadori Libri S.p.A., Milano English translation copyright © 2018 by Antony Shugaar Originally published in Italy in 2016 as L’Angelo
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First Scribner hardcover edition February 2018
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Dazieri, Sandrone, 1964– author. | Shugaar, Antony, translator. Title: Kill the angel : a novel / Sandrone Dazieri ; translated by Antony Shugaar. Other titles: Angelo. English
Description: First Scribner hardcover edition. | New York : Scribner, 2018. | Series: Caselli and Torre series ; 2 | “Originally published in Italy in 2016 as L’Angelo”—Verso title page.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017051621 (print) | LCCN 2017057111 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501174674 (eBook) | ISBN 9781501174650 (hardback) | ISBN 9781501174667 (paperback)
Subjects: LCSH: Mentally ill offenders—Fiction. | Serial murder Investigation—Italy—Fiction. | Psychological fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Suspense. | FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction. | Suspense fiction. Classification: LCC PQ4864.A96 (ebook) | LCC PQ4864.A96 A5413 2018 (print) | DDC 853/.914—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017051621
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ISBN 978-1-5011-7467-4 (ebook)