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CAMILLA LACKBERG
3 Swedish Crime Thriller Novels: The Stranger, The Hidden Child, The Drowning
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2013
Copyright © Camilla Lackberg 2006, 2007 & 2008
The Stranger (previously titled The Gallows Bird) English Translation © Steven T. Murray 2011 The Hidden Child and The Drowning translation © Tiina Nunnally 2011
The Stranger cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2012 Cover photography © Lee Gibbons, Background texture © www.blacksheep-uk.com
The Hidden Child cover layout design © www.blacksheep-uk.com
The Drowning cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2012 Cover photographs © Lee Gibbons (heart necklace on rock); Joakim Hermanson, Upplevelsebolaget (background); Pete Turner, Getty Images (sky).
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Camilla Lackberg asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Ebook Edition © JULY 2013 ISBN: 9780007535132
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CAMILLA LACKBERG
The Stranger
previously entitled
The Gallows Bird
Translated by Steven T. Murray
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF
First published as The Gallows Bird in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2011 Published by agreement with Nordin Agency, Sweden First published in Swedish as Olycksfågeln in 2006
Copyright © Camilla Lackberg 2006
English translation © Steven T. Murray 2011
The Stranger cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2012. Cover photography © Lee Gibbons Background texture © www.blacksheep-uk.com
Camilla Lackberg asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
This novel is entirely a work of fiction.
The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
All rights reserved under International Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented,
