The Devil`s Feather (46 page)

ALSO BY MINETTE WALTERS

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Fox Evil

Acid Row

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The Breaker

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The Dark Room

The Scold’s Bride

The Sculptress

The Ice House

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2006 by Minette Walters

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Originally published in Great Britain by Macmillan, an imprint of Pan Macmillan Ltd., London, in 2005.

Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Walters, Minette.
The devil’s feather / Minette Walters.
p. cm.
eISBN-13: 978-0-307-26605-7
eISBN-10: 0-307-26605-2
1. Foreign correspondents—Fiction. 2. Serial murderers—Fiction.
3. Dorset (England)—Fiction. 4. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
PR
6073.
A
444
D
48 2006
823'.914—dc22             2006041033

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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