The Girl Before is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2017 by JP Delaney

Title-page photograph © iStockPhoto/Evgeny Sergeev

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

NAMES: Delaney, JP, author.

TITLE: The girl before: a novel / JP Delaney.

DESCRIPTION: First edition. | New York: Ballantine Books, 2017.

IDENTIFIERS: LCCN 2016029751 (print) | LCCN 2016037826 (ebook) | ISBN 9780425285046 (hardback) | ISBN 9780425285053 (ebook)

SUBJECTS: LCSH: Architects—Fiction. | Single women—Fiction. | Dwellings—Fiction. | Control (Psychology)—Fiction. | Psychological fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Suspense. | FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Thrillers. | GSAFD: Suspense fiction. | LCGFT: Thrillers (Fiction)

CLASSIFICATION: LCC PS3569.T717 G57 2017 (print) | LCC PS3569.T717 (ebook) | DDC 813/.54—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2016029751

Ebook ISBN 9780425285053

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