Summer of the Dead, page 32
And then, too soon, the song was over. The sun was down. And it was, Bell knew, time to go home.
ALSO BY JULIA KELLER
A Killing in the Hills
Bitter River
About the Author
JULIA KELLER spent twelve years as a reporter and editor for the Chicago Tribune, where she won a Pulitzer Prize. A recipient of a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University, she was born in West Virginia and lives in Chicago and Ohio.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
SUMMER OF THE DEAD. Copyright © 2014 by Julia Keller. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Keller, Julia.
Summer of the dead / Julia Keller.
pages cm.—(Bell Elkins novels; 3)
ISBN 978-1-250-04473-0 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4668-4318-9 (e-book)
1. Women private investigators—Fiction. 2. Murder—Fiction. 3. West Virginia—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3611.E4245S86 2014
813'.6—dc23
2014014776
eISBN 9781466843189
First Edition: August 2014
Julia Keller, Summer of the Dead
