Assassin (35 page)
Authors: Tara Moss
Mak Vanderwall is beautiful, single, an international fashion model, a student of forensic psychology — and a psychomagnet. And her best friend has just been brutally murdered.
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a steamy fast-paced romantic thriller … marks the arrival of a bold new female voice
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EEKLY
Mak Vanderwall is a woman haunted by violent nightmares. She is eager to finish her studies, move on and find some peace of mind. But her past cannot be so easily forgotten.
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crime has become seriously sexy … They’re lit chicks with attitude. Tara Moss … being queen bee
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Eighteen months after her ordeal at the hands of the sadistic Stiletto Killer, Mak Vanderwall must confront her demons at the trial. But just as the verdict is handed down, the unthinkable happens.
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a racy and entertaining thriller that contains a villain every bit as sinister as Hannibal Lecter
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Hoping to scrape together some extra cash, Mak Vanderwall begins working as a part-time PI. With a knack for investigation and bending the law, she might just have stumbled across her true calling.
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Mak is too fabulous for words … It’s part Phryne Fisher and part Stephanie Plum
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ERCURY
Mak Vanderwall is hired to track down a missing son. Could he have run off with a troupe of shady French cabaret artists? Meanwhile, Mak believes the powerful Cavanagh family has got away with murder.
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Moss is a fluent writer who stacks up the fun with lots of violence, sex and thrilling suspense
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First published in Australia in 2012
This edition published in 2012
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Copyright © Tara Moss 2012
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
Moss, Tara.
Assassin / Tara Moss.
ISBN: 978 0 7322 8510 4 (pbk.)
ISBN: 978 1 74309 663 5 (epub)
Moss, Tara. Mak Vanderwall; 6.
Suspense fiction, English.
Detective and mystery stories.
A823.3
Cover design by Darren Holt, HarperCollins Design Studio
Cover image by Gavin O’Neill
