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This first world edition published 2011

in Great Britain and the USA by

SEVERN HOUSE PUBLISHERS LTD of

9–15 High Street, Sutton, Surrey, England, SM1 1DF.

Copyright © 2011 by Ronald Tierney.

All rights reserved.

The moral right of the author has been asserted.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Tierney, Ronald.

Good to the last kiss. – (Crimes of the depraved mind)

1. Police – California – San Francisco – Fiction. 2. Serial

murder investigation – California – San Francisco –

Fiction. 3. Rape victims – Fiction. 4. Psychic trauma –

Fiction. 5. Detective and mystery stories.

I. Title II. Series

813.5’4-dc22

ISBN-13: 978-1-78010-069-2   (ePub)

ISBN-13: 978-0-7278-8030-7   (cased)

Except where actual historical events and characters are being described for the storyline of this novel, all situations in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to living persons is purely coincidental.

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