QUICK KILLS
ALSO BY LYNN LURIE
Corner of the Dead 2008
© 2014 by Lynn Lurie
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Etruscan Press
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Published 2014 by Etruscan Press
Cover photograph by Margrit Polak
Cover design by Carey Schwartzburt
Interior design and typesetting by Susan Leonard
The text of this book is set in Garamond Premier Pro.
The excerpt on page 47 is from “Slash and Thrust” by John Sanchez reprinted with the permission of Paladin Press.
First Edition
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lurie, Lynn, 1958-
Quick kills / by Lynn Lurie. -- First edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-9886922-9-9 (ebook)
1. Sisters--Fiction. 2. Family secrets--Fiction. 3. Women--Crimes against--Fiction. I. Title.
PS3612.U774Q85 2014
813’.6--dc23
2014009902
Please turn to the back of this book for a list of the sustaining funders of Etruscan Press.
For Franny
Doe, a deer, a female deer
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Me, a name I call myself
Many thanks to Terese Svoboda, wise and tireless reader, teacher and friend, to Noy Holland for a beginning and to Phil Brady for the continuation, and to those who most matter, Andrew, Barnett and Franny.
QUICK KILLS
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