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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Lescroart, John T., author.

Title: Fatal : a novel / John Lescroart.

Description: First edition. | New York City : Atria Books, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016017628 (print) | LCCN 2016023015 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501115677 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501115691 ()

Subjects: LCSH: Married people—Fiction. | Adultery—Fiction. | Psychological fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Suspense. | FICTION / Thrillers. | FICTION / Legal. | GSAFD: Suspense fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3562.E78 F38 2017 (print) | LCC PS3562.E78 (ebook) |

DDC 813/.54—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016017628

ISBN 978-1-5011-1567-7

ISBN 978-1-5011-1569-1 (ebook)