Copyright, Queen Anne's Lace

BERKLEY PRIME CRIME

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Albert, Susan Wittig, author.

Title: Queen Anne’s lace / Susan Wittig Albert.

Description: First edition. | New York, NY : Berkley Prime Crime, 2018. |

Series: China Bayles mysteries

Identifiers: LCCN 2017028400 (print) | LCCN 2017031280 (ebook) | ISBN 9780698190306 (eBook) | ISBN 9780425280058 (hardcover)

Subjects: LCSH: Bayles, China (Fictitious character)—Fiction. | Women detectives—Texas—Fiction. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3551.L2637 (ebook) | LCC PS3551.L2637 Q44 2018 (print) |

DDC 813/.54—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017028400

First Edition: April 2018

Cover design by Judith Murello

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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