FAITHLESS

A Delacorte Press Book / September 2005


Published by

Bantam Dell

A Division of Random House, Inc.

New York, New York


This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.


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Copyright © 2005 by Karin Slaughter


Delacorte Press is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.


Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data


Slaughter, Karin

Faithless / Karin Slaughter.

p.    cm.

eISBN 0-440-33557-4

1. Linton, Sara (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Tolliver, Jeffrey (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 3. Young women—Crimes against—Fiction. 4. Forensic pathologists—Fiction. 5. Police—Georgia—Fiction. 6. Women physicians—Fiction. 7. Police chiefs—Fiction. 8. Georgia—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3569.L275 F354 2005

813'.6 22                   2005048499


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