The Bullet (30 page)

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2015 by Mary Louise Kelly

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First Gallery Books hardcover edition March 2015

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kelly, Mary Louise.

The bullet / Mary Louise Kelly.—First Gallery Books hardcover edition.

pages ; cm

1. Women college teachers—Fiction. 2. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3611.E4433B85 2015

813'.6—dc23

2014025025

ISBN 978-1-4767-6981-3

ISBN 978-1-4767-6984-4 (ebook)