Bone Box

Bone Box
Faye Kellerman

The gripping new crime novel in the Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman.They thought the murders were over.But now there’s a new victim…On a crisp September morning in the woods of upstate New York, Rina Decker stumbles upon human remains. She calls her husband, Peter, a former detective lieutenant with LAPD. Within hours, the forest is transformed into a frenetic crime scene.As Decker and his partner, Tyler McAdams, further investigate, they realize they’re most likely dealing with a missing student from the Five Colleges of Upstate.And when more bodies are found in the same area, Decker and McAdams know this isn’t just a one-off murder case. Now they must race to protect their community from a psychopathic killer still in the area – and on the hunt for a fresh victim.

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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

First published in the USA in 2017 by

William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Copyright © Plot Line, Inc. 2017

Cover design by Cherie Chapman © HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2017

Cover photographs © Tony Watson/Arcangel Images (http://www.arcangel.com) (forest);

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

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Source ISBN: 9780008148867

Ebook Edition © Feb 2017 ISBN: 9780008148850

Version: 2017-07-05

Dedication (#ulink_b53b0c56-f22c-5ec8-8aad-2ea9a9e127e8)

To Lila, Oscar, Eva, Judah, and welcoming Masha

And as always, to Jonathan

Contents

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Title Page (#u1b1c1ec5-5188-5b27-a2e6-590667a6a0d0)

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Dedication (#u9a74da6c-6804-5de4-823e-443815fbc5b8)

Chapter One (#ue3cbeb17-d419-5cca-9860-1ffe30820bd4)

Chapter Two (#ub8e17b92-4690-5f43-a135-887dbefe3016)

Chapter Three (#ub8e04039-e0d9-5722-8172-e1cd1242fb29)

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Chapter Five (#u2905e091-3a14-55a6-9c0d-28219b0123d3)

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Chapter Seven (#udb1a4b38-f6e1-5fff-8051-420f999654f0)

Chapter Eight (#u87b1fff0-549b-5508-9bcd-a05419ff757e)

Chapter Nine (#uf55b90da-4130-5813-9b95-c2271e0df013)

Chapter Ten (#u78888e4c-5d5d-547a-8a6e-13212805e074)

Chapter Eleven (#ud019d6d7-8b2e-5700-ba75-dc51765fcbb9)

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Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-one (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-three (#litres_trial_promo)