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Copyright 2003 by Laura Lippman

The moral right of Laura Lippman to be identified as the author of this
work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act of 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any
means, electronic, mechanical,

photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of
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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British
Library.

ISBN 0 75285 985 4 (hardback)

Printed in Great Britain by Clays Ltd, st Ives plc

All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to
actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

The Orion Publishing Group Ltd

Orion House

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For Vicky Bijur and Carrie Feron

The end of the matter; all has been heard. Fear God, and keep his
commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring
every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or
evil.

ECCLESIASTES 12: 13-14

Acknowledgments

This is a work of fiction. I am grateful to Bill Toohey, Gary Childs,
and David Simon for helping me with the technical aspects of police
work. Joan Jacobson and Lisa Respers told me what I was getting right
(and what I was getting wrong) about our hometown and its inhabitants.
Susan P. Leviton, director of Maryland Advocates for Children and
Youth, provided a key piece of information about the state's juvenile
system. But I have used all this research for my own ends to write a
work of fiction. If there has ever been a case like this in the
history of Maryland, I am wholly ignorant of it.