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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McBride, Susan.
Very bad things / Susan McBride. — First edition.
pages cm
Summary: “When a photo of Katie’s popular boyfriend Mark having drunken sex with a tattooed girl at a party goes viral at their exclusive boarding school, Katie is devastated. Mark swears that he doesn’t remember anything. But Rose, the girl in the photo, is missing—and Katie receives a gruesome present in the mail: a badly wrapped severed hand with a red rose tattoo”—Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-0-385-73797-5 (hc : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-385-90704-0
(glb : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-385-37102-5 (ebook : alk. paper)
[1. Mystery and detective stories. 2. Murder—Fiction. 3. Boarding schools—Fiction. 4. Schools—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.M478276Ve 2014
[Fic]—dc23
2013021675
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