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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hayes, Jonathan

A hard death: a novel / Jonathan Hayes.—1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-06-169176-8 (hardback)

1. Forensic pathologists—Fiction. 2. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 3. Florida—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3608.A932H37 2011

813'.6—dc22

2010035717

EPub Edition © MARCH 2011 ISBN: 978-0-06-207905-3

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