Copyright © 2002 by Michael Malone
Cover design by Chip Kidd
Cover image by William Eggleston/A+C Anthology
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The characters and events portrayed in First Lady are fictitious. The setting is the state of North Carolina, and certain public institutions and public offices are mentioned, but the characters involved in them are entirely imaginary. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental and not intended by the author.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Malone, Michael
First Lady / by Michael Malone.
p. cm.
ISBN 1-57071-971-3 (alk. paper)
Police—North Carolina—Fiction. 2. North Carolina—
Fiction. 3. Serial murders—Fiction. I. Title
PS3563.A43244 F57 2001
813’.54
2001031327