Elena Forbes worked for a number of international investment groups before becoming a full-time writer. She is the author of four previous thrillers in the Mark Tartaglia series, the first of which, Die with Me, was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award. She lives in central London. @ElenaForbes5 | elenaforbes.com
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Mark Tartaglia
Die with Me Our Lady of Pain Evil in Return The Jigsaw Man
First published in Great Britain, the USA and Canada in 2020 by Black Thorn, an imprint of Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE
Distributed in the USA by Publishers Group West and in Canada by Publishers Group Canada
First published in 2018 by Severn House Publishers Ltd, Eardley House, 4 Uxbridge Street, London W8 7SY
This digital edition first published in 2020 by Black Thorn
Copyright © Elena Forbes 2018
The right of Elena Forbes to be identified as the
author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Except where actual historical events and characters are being described for the storyline of this novel, all situations in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is purely coincidental.
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library
ISBN 978 1 78689 868 5
eISBN 978 1 78689 869 2
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