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Taking Lives

by Michael Pye

Fiction, suspenseFiction, psychologicalFiction, mystery & detective, generalFiction, thrillers, generalSerial murders, fiction
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Fiction, suspenseFiction, psychologicalFiction, mystery & detective, generalFiction, thrillers, generalSerial murders, fictionPrivate investigators, fiction

About the author

Michael Pye

1946

Author

Michael Pye

Pages

370

Read time

≈ 9h

Editions

3

Language

English

Publisher

Orion Publishing Group, Limited

ISBN

9780753807668

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