Siren

by Tara Moss

  To Dad, Lou, Jackie, Dave, all the Moss, Carlson, Bosch, Hooft, Hartman and Sellheim clans—love.

  Mum, I never forget you.

  About the Author

  Tara is the author of four bestselling crime novels published in sixteen countries in ten languages. Writing has been a lifelong passion for her; she began penning gruesome ‘Stephen King-inspired’ stories for her classmates when she was only ten. Tara enjoyed a successful international career as a fashion model before pursuing professional writing, first earning a Diploma from the Australian College of Journalism. She began writing her debut novel, Fetish, when she was just twenty-three. Her crime novels have been nominated for the Davitt and the Ned Kelly awards. She has a star on the Australian Walk of Fame: the first person so inducted for services to literature.

  Not a writer to rely solely on imagination, she has toured the FBI Academy at Quantico, spent time in squad cars, morgues, prisons, labs, the Supreme Court and criminology conferences world-wide, taken polygraph tests, shot weapons, conducted surveillance, flown with the RAAF, and acquired her CAMS race driver licence. Tara recently earned her PI licence, and was set on fire by Hollywood stunt company West EFX and choked unconscious by Ultimate Fighter ‘Big’ John McCarthy for her research.

  Born in Victoria, BC, Tara is a proud dual Australian/ Canadian citizen, and divides her time between Sydney, Los Angeles and her hometown in Canada. She is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, as well as an ambassador for the YWCA and the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children.

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  Other Books By Tara Moss

  Fetish

  Split

  Covet

  Hit

  Copyright

  HarperCollinsPublishers

  First published in Australia in 2009

  This edition published in 2010

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  Copyright © Tara Moss 2009

  The right of Tara Moss to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her under the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000.

  This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced, copied, scanned, stored in a retrieval system, recorded, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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  National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

  Moss, Tara.

  Siren / Tara Moss.

  ISBN: 978 0 7322 8512 8 (pbk.)

  ISBN: 978-0-730-49189-7 (ePub)

  A823.4

  Cover design by Natalie Winter, adapted by Alicia Freile, Tango Media

  Cover images: woman’s legs by Ondrea Barbe / Corbis; hat by Shutterstock.com; chair by Iain McKell, Getty Images

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