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The Drowning Child
Alex Barclay
The heart-stopping new thriller in the Ren Bryce series by Alex Barclay, bestselling author of DARKHOUSE and KILLING WAYS.When Special Agent Ren Bryce is called to Tate, Oregon to investigate the disappearance of twelve-year-old Caleb Veir, she finds a town already in mourning.Two other young boys have died recently, although in very different circumstances. As Ren digs deeper, she discovers that all is not as it seems in the Veir household – and that while Tate is a small town, it guards some very big secrets…Can Ren uncover the truth before more children are harmed?
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Published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
Copyright © Alex Barclay 2016
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Ebook Edition © SEPTEMBER 2016 ISBN: 9780007494583
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Praise for Alex Barclay: (#ulink_3962b8d6-6d32-5e53-8a9f-6deb87edb7ec)
‘Gripping, stylish, convincing’ Sunday Times
‘The rising star of the hard-boiled crime fiction world, combining wild characters, surprising plots and massive backdrops with a touch of dry humour’ Mirror
‘Tense, no-punches-pulled thriller that will have you on the edge of your deckchair.’ Woman and Home
‘Explosive’ Company
‘Compelling’ Glamour
‘Excellent summer reading … Barclay has the confidence to move her story along slowly, and deftly explores the relationships between her characters’ Sunday Telegraph
‘The thriller of the summer’ Irish Independent
‘If you haven’t discovered Alex Barclay, it’s time to jump on the bandwagon’ Image Magazine
Dedication (#ulink_de5c205b-9db2-5963-b9f4-3852cfffc6be)
For my editor, the wonderful Sarah Hodgson
Epigraph (#ulink_a1c3331d-ecb5-5e5a-91ab-dc181782a53d)
To a Dying Girl
How quickly must she go?
She calls dark swans from mirrors everywhere:
From halls and porticos, from pools of air.
How quickly must she know?
They wander through the fathoms of her eye,
Waning southerly until their cry
Is gone where she must go.
How quickly does the cloudfire streak the sky,
Tremble on the peaks, then cool and die?
She moves like evening into night,
Forgetful as the swans forget their flight
Or spring the fragile snow,
So quickly she must go.
Clinton F. Larson
Contents
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Title Page (#ubbc80ec4-7dd2-59fe-828c-7dfc1601dd73)
Copyright (#u6b7f9115-8158-5e0f-bf7b-231c4230f338)
Praise (#u8d3ebcdd-a821-57cf-b377-6875de6b6d68)
Dedication (#ud05e0784-23c1-5c74-9603-ce6522cb58d6)
Epigraph (#u1789fac7-9fa6-5046-8b4c-7a039e08fe07)
Prologue (#u0d67739e-02e5-584c-bf84-a9de06733510)
Chapter 1 (#u2a1459d9-6ab9-5ea2-88f6-e4b884b34ca2)
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