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Copyright © 2010 by Julie Kramer

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First Atria Books hardcover edition June 2010

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kramer, Julie.

Silencing Sam : a novel / by Julie Kramer.—1st Atria Books hardcover ed.

   p. cm.

1. Women television journalists—Fiction. 2. Gossip columnists—Crimes against—Fiction. 3. Murder—Investigation—Fiction. 4. Minneapolis (Minn.)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3611.R355S55 2010

813'.6-dc22                                         2010015091

ISBN 978-1-4391-7799-0

ISBN 978-1-4391-7803-4 (ebook)