Serpent’s Tooth. Faye Kellerman

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      First published in the United States by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 1997

      This ebook edition published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

      Copyright © Faye Kellerman 1997

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      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 © March 2019 ISBN: 9780008293567

      Version: 2018-12-10

       Dedication

       To Jonathan after having reached

       the twenty-five-year mark.

       There may be silver at your temples,

       but there’s only gold in your heart.

       Thanks a heap, Colonel.

       Epigraph

       Now the serpent was more cunning than any other beast of the field.

      —Genesis 3:1

       Because you did this, you are cursed from among all the animals and beasts of the field.

      —Genesis 3:14

       From this we learn that we do not give one who seduces people [to do evil] the opportunity to justify his actions.

      —Rashi

      Sanhedrin 29a