About the Author
ELIZABETH GEORGE is the New York Times bestselling author of fifteen novels of psychological suspense, one book of nonfiction, and three short-story collections. Her work has been honored with the Anthony and Agatha awards, the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and the MIMI, Germany’s prestigious prize for suspense fiction. She lives in Washington State.
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NONFICTION
Write Away: One Novelist’s Approach to Fiction and the Writing Life
ANTHOLOGY
A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women
Two of the Deadliest: New Tales of Lust, Greed, and Murder from Outstanding Women of Mystery
Credits
Jacket photograph © Jake Wyman/Getty Images
Jacket design by Christine Van Bree
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THIS BODY OF DEATH. Copyright © 2010 by Susan Elizabeth George. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
George, Elizabeth
This body of death / Elizabeth George—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-06-116088-2
1. Lynley, Thomas (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Women detectives—England—Fiction. 3. Women—Crimes against—Fiction. 4. London (England)—Fiction. 5. Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Office. Criminal Investigation Dept.—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3557.E478T48 2010
813'.54—dc22
2009035547
EPub Edition © March 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-199146-2
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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