The Ex

The Ex
BEVERLY BARTON

You’ll be up all night with this addictive thriller from the New York Times bestselling author.What if, one by one, your exes were being murdered – and all the evidence pointed at you?Hotshot lawyer Quinn Cortez is infamous for his prowess in the courtroom – and the bedroom. But when his latest conquest – notorious party girl Lulu Vanderley – is found butchered, Cortez becomes the prime suspect.Suffering paralysing blackouts, and with no memory of his actions at the time of the murder, Cortez must fight to clear his name. Lulu's cousin Annabelle is willing to believe he is innocent – until more bodies are discovered, and all the clues lead back to him.To catch a killer, Cortez must explore the blackness within him, and confront the shocking truth…

Beverly Barton

THE EX

Copyright (#u64125e08-32ea-55f4-bd6a-ca8893004330)

Published by AVON

A Division of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd

1 London Bridge Street

London SE1 9GF

www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)

First published in Great Britain as Amnesia by HarperCollins 2011

This eBook edition published 2018

Copyright © Beverly Barton 2006

Cover design © Diane Meacham Design 2018

Cover photograph © Shutterstock

Beverly Barton asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library.

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.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.

Source ISBN: 9781847560018

Ebook Edition © May 2018 ISBN: 9780007328949

Version: 2018-06-04

Dedication (#u64125e08-32ea-55f4-bd6a-ca8893004330)

For John Scognamiglio, editor extraordinaire, and Richard Curtis, agent par excellence. Thank you both for excellent professional guidance.

Also, with great appreciation to Michael Speltz, my research “partner in crime.”

Contents

Cover (#u6b63abe4-9522-5f56-959d-4d0e591ffffe)

Title Page (#uf6d95ad0-158e-5cc1-97b2-4cb67a0c6f88)

Copyright (#u38e0ef58-8c81-58df-973d-3b4dfa0f9ac6)

Dedication (#u8535f730-f5a9-5371-8e86-7aaed6ae9043)

Prologue (#u6a775574-df90-5ca2-9856-5099adbef6fe)

Chapter 1 (#udbbfe10e-421c-5481-988d-f73cf44e5ce4)

Chapter 2 (#ucd6a5701-5d85-54bb-bb19-6571aece04df)

Chapter 3 (#u80d31e0f-cfb2-587a-a885-3884411fa0da)

Chapter 4 (#u4a77859b-0e02-5a12-a8d4-f79bc4191998)

Chapter 5 (#u40373cab-1151-5c4f-90d6-bf25b6328dce)

Chapter 6 (#u9ddb8aa3-0a60-5009-8406-b2c07ec8515f)

Chapter 7 (#u8116f0fb-16c2-529b-af62-4494d67c351a)

Chapter 8 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 11 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 12 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 13 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 14 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 15 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 16 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 19 (#litres_trial_promo)