Never Tell

Never Tell
Alafair Burke

A nail biting thriller that keeps you on the edge of your seat.When prep school junior Julia Whitmire is found dead in the bathtub of her family’s Upper East Side apartment, her left wrist slashed and suicide note resting on her dresser, Ellie Hatcher and her partner, J.J. Rogan initially write the case off as a suicide.Julia’s parents insist that their daughter would never take her own life, but Ellie knows all too well that family members can be the last to accept the truth.But when Julia’s mother appeals to her with the evidence – including a hand-written suicide note she believes her internet-obsessed daughter would never have composed – Hatcher is confronted with the possibility of a troubled young girl's murder.

ALAFAIR BURKE

Never Tell

Copyright (#ulink_a358e939-3f79-52aa-8f6e-99370ae310ec)

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright © Alafair Burke 2012

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Source ISBN: 9781847562562

Ebook Edition © August 2012 ISBN: 9780007488612

Version: 2018-06-29

For my mother-in-law,

Ellie Hatcher Simpson.

Thank you for your name and

your son (not in that order).

Table of Contents

Title Page (#uf9b96243-4900-5336-a9c6-6961e6e0f7f5)

Copyright (#ud8687914-aa7c-5bbf-a78a-0dd539874a76)

Dedication (#u63f5d8ba-8f19-54ab-9ff9-ea055eaca5aa)

Part I: Julia (#u66b379fe-7ce5-528d-b22d-242aea7250b6)

Chapter One (#u79c7208d-6c56-5455-9637-828f6da9d8a9)

Chapter Two (#u49c350c4-cbfb-5426-9246-7b04be07f007)

Chapter Three (#uccbf2f9d-5226-5d58-be6b-0ec610122653)

Chapter Four (#u78d989b3-754f-5968-b1a6-9bb5ed671280)

Chapter Five (#ucb824a86-29e5-5c70-b200-c89f7be25ec4)

Chapter Six (#u0b848304-83f5-5394-a46e-21da0c790da7)

Chapter Seven (#ua9f5aa97-5d1a-5187-9f26-9f131744220e)

Chapter Eight (#u02899f17-3fbf-5493-a080-f0b9e95bbbdf)

Chapter Nine (#ude1bbfe0-0939-545f-935e-094b3cd7143e)

Chapter Ten (#u7c7ebbc7-8b2d-5c21-bc8e-662bc9d0e662)

Chapter Eleven (#u263789ba-df13-5491-a9e7-a5a7218bd668)

Chapter Twelve (#ua769d9a4-e9cd-5f55-870f-3c465106097c)

Chapter Thirteen (#u4543401d-e9c8-5592-8e7a-709994e36f68)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Part II: Ramona (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)