Dedication:

For my mother, Polly Spann,
who told me I could do anything.

Published 2005 by Medallion Press, Inc.

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Copyright © 2005 by Liz Wolfe

Cover Illustration by Adam Mock

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wolfe, Liz.

Natural selection / Liz Wolfe.

p. cm.

ISBN 1-932815-22-8

1. Women private investigators--Oregon--Fiction. 2. Oregon--Fiction. I. Title.

PS3623.O553N38 2005

813’.6--dc22

2005020726