The Butcher (39 page)

ALSO BY JENNIFER HILLIER

Creep

Freak

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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 © 2014 by Jennifer Hillier

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First Gallery Books hardcover edition July 2014

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Interior design by Jill Putorti

Jacket design by John Vairo Jr.

Jacket photograph © Ilona Wellmann/Trevellion Images

Author photography by Steve Hillier

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hillier, Jennifer.

The butcher / Jennifer Hillier.—First Gallery Books hardcover edition.

pages cm.

Summary: From the author of the acclaimed suspense novels
Creep
and
Freak
and whom Jeffery Deaver has praised as a “top of the line thriller writer,”
The Butcher
is a high-octane novel about lethal secrets that refuse to die—until they kill again.

1. Serial murders—Fiction. 2. Family secrets—Fiction. 3. Psychological fiction. I. Title.

PS3608.I446B88 2014223

813'.6—dc23

2013047237

ISBN 978-1-4767-3421-7

ISBN 978-1-4767-3422-4 (ebook)