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VAL McDERMID
3–Book Thriller Collection
The Mermaids Singing
The Wire in the Blood
The Last Temptation
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First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
Copyright © Val McDermid 2016
Val McDermid asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. Any references to real people, living or dead, real events, businesses, organizations and localities are intended only to give the fiction a sense of reality and authenticity. All names, characters and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and their resemblance, if any, to real-life counterparts is entirely coincidental.
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Ebook Edition © January 2016 ISBN: 9780008108694
Version: 2015-10-08
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VAL McDERMID
THE MERMAIDS SINGING
HarperCollinsPublishers
1 London Bridge Street
London SE1 9GF
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers in 1995
Copyright © Val McDermid 1995
Val McDermid asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
Cover design © MavroDesign.com
Cover photographs © Michael Trevillion/Trevillion images(house); Jonathan D. GoForth/Getty Images (red gate); Patrick Chambers (grass); Shutterstock.com (wire)
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 and Pan–American 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 hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins.
HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication.
Source ISBN: 9780008134761
Ebook Edition © NOVEMBER 2015 ISBN: 9780007327560
Version: 2015-10-08
This is a twentieth-anniversary edition, which means a third of my life has been shared with Val McDermid, first on the page, and then from time to time in person. More than a third, actually, because The Mermaids Singing
