Devil's Night (38 page)

DEVIL’S NIGHT. Copyright © 2013 by Todd Ritter. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Cover design by David Baldeosingh Rotstein

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Ritter, Todd.

Devil’s night / Todd Ritter.—First edition.

pages cm

ISBN 978-1-250-02853-2 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-25002854-9 (e-book)

1. Women police chiefs—Fiction. 2. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3618.I79D48 2013

813'.6—dc23

2013009831

eISBN 9781250028549

First Edition: August 2013

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Prologue

24 Hours Earlier

1 a.m.

2 a.m.

3 a.m.

4 a.m.

5 a.m.

6 a.m.

7 a.m.

8 a.m.

9 a.m.

10 a.m.

11 a.m.

12 p.m.

1 p.m.

2 p.m.

3 p.m.

4 p.m.

5 p.m.

6 p.m.

7 p.m.

8 p.m.

9 p.m.

10 p.m.

11 p.m.

Midnight

1 a.m.

2 a.m.

Acknowledgments

Also by Todd Ritter

About the Author

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