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“Claire.”

Paul's voice. She knew his voice. Claire went to her husband. She wrapped her arms and legs around him. She pulled him close to her chest. She pressed her lips to the side of his head. She could feel the heat leaving his body. “Paul, please. Be okay. You have to be okay.”

“I'm okay,” Paul said, and it seemed like the truth until it wasn't anymore. The tremor started in his legs and worked into a violent shaking by the time it reached the rest of his body. His teeth chattered. His eyelids fluttered.

He said, “I love you.”

“Please,” she whispered, burying her face in his neck. She smelled his aftershave. Felt a rough patch of beard he'd missed with the razor this morning. Everywhere she touched him, his skin was so very, very cold. “Please don't leave me, Paul. Please.”

“I won't,” he promised.

But then he did.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

KARIN SLAUGHTER
is the #1 internationally bestselling author of more than a dozen novels, including the Will Trent and Grant County series and the instant
New York Times
bestseller
Cop Town
. There are more than 30 million copies of her books in print around the world.

Her new novel
Pretty Girls
will be published in September 2015.

www.karinslaughter.com

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RESOUNDING PRAISE FOR
INDELIBLE

“Harrowing . . . compelling . . . solidly and uniquely plotted . . . realistic and believable . . .
Indelible
again proves the superb indelible mark Slaughter is making on mystery fiction.”
Florida Sun-Sentinel

“Lauded on two continents as the most significant new voice in American crime fiction.”
Daily Telegraph
(Sydney, Australia)

“Skillfully told in both the then and the now, and quite scary on both fronts.”
New York Daily News

“Gripping . . . complex characters with credible relationships . . . Slaughter's tightly disciplined rhythm and occasional sly humor keep readers hooked right up to the end.”
Publishers Weekly

“Amazingly, Slaughter manages between past and present stories while maintaining suspense in both.”
Kirkus Reviews

“Given its portrayal of the good and the bad of the small-town South, its medical detail and its twisty plot, Indelible is a really hard book to put down”
New Orleans Times-Picayune

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COPYRIGHT

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Excerpt from
Pretty Girls
copyright © 2015 by Karin Slaughter

INDELIBLE
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EPub Edition OCTOBER 2009 ISBN: 9780061807114

Print Edition ISBN: 9780062385420

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