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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, 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. The suburb of Tallong exists only in the author’s imagination.
Copyright © 2009 by Stephen M. Irwin
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Originally published in different form in Australia in paperback by Hachette Australia, an imprint of Hachette Australia Pty Limited, Sydney, in 2009. This edition published by arrangement with Hachette Australia Pty Ltd.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Irwin, Stephen M.
The dead path: a novel / Stephen M. Irwin.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Widowers—Fiction. 2. Psychics—Fiction. 3. Missing children—Fiction. 4. Australia—Fiction. I. Title.
PR9619.4.179D43 2010
823′.92—dc22 2009053661
eISBN: 978-0-385-53356-0
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