Published 2019 by Seventh Street Books®

A Shattered Lens. Copyright © 2019 by Layton Green. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a website without prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Green, Layton, author.

Title: A shattered lens : a Detective Preach Everson novel / by Layton Green.

Description: Amherst, NY : Seventh Street Books, an imprint of Prometheus Books, 2019. | Series: A Detective Preach Everson novel ; 2

Identifiers: LCCN 2018042003 (print) | LCCN 2018043594 (ebook) | ISBN 9781633885394 (ebook) | ISBN 9781633885387 (paperback)

Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / Mystery & Detective / PoliceProcedural.|FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General. | FICTION / Suspense. | GSAFD: Suspense fiction. | Mystery fiction. g

Classification: LCC PS3607.R43327 (ebook) | LCC PS3607.R43327 S54 2019 (print) | DDC 813/.6--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018042003

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