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‘What are you smiling about?’
‘Was I smiling?’
‘Yes.’
The last remnants of trepidation had fallen away in our time down here. I don’t know whether it was seeing Paul so easily fit in with all my family and their friends and the locals, or the way he had unobtrusively been there as a buffer and a backstop, quietly organising, but not being pushy, but I’d come to realise he was my rock, and, actually, that that was okay. But despite this dawning, I could still feel my heart start beating harder in my chest, and a touch of light-headedness as I finally found the words.
‘That’s because there’s something you really need to know.’
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Vanda Symon lives in Dunedin, New Zealand. As well as being a crime writer, she has a PhD in science communication and is a researcher at the Centre for Pacific Health at the University of Otago. Overkill was shortlisted for the 2019 CWA John Creasey Debut Dagger Award and she is a three-time finalist for the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel. Vanda produces and hosts Write On, a monthly radio show focusing on the world of books at Otago Access Radio. When she isn’t working or writing, Vanda can be found in the garden, or on the business end of a fencing foil.
Follow Vanda on Twitter @vandasymon, Instagram @vandasymon, Facebook, @vandasymonauthor or her website, www.vandasymon.com.
Other titles in the Sam Shephard series – available from Orenda Books:
Overkill
The Ringmaster
Containment
Copyright
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First published in New Zealand by Penguin Books (NZ) in 2011
This edition first published in the United Kingdom by Orenda Books 2021
Copyright © Vanda Symon 2021
Vanda Symon has asserted her moral right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.
All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the written permission of the publishers.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either products of the author’s imagina-tion or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 978–1–913193–52–2
eISBN 978–1–913193–53–9
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Printed and bound by 4edge Ltd, Essex
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