This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

A THOMAS DUNNE BOOK FOR MINOTAUR BOOKS.

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ONE WAS A SOLDIER. Copyright © 2011 by Julia Spencer-Fleming. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Spencer-Fleming, Julia.

One was a soldier : a Clare Fergusson/Russ van Alstyne mystery / Julia Spencer-Fleming. — 1st ed.

    p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-312-33489-5 (alk. paper)

  1.  Iraq War, 2003—Veterans—Fiction.   2.  Veterans—Crimes against—Fiction.   3.  Fergusson, Clare (Fictitious character)—Fiction.   4.  Van Alstyne, Russ (Fictitious character)—Fiction.   5.  Women clergy—Fiction.   6.  Police chiefs—Fiction.   7.  Murder—Investigation—Fiction.   8.  City and town life—New York (State)—Adirondack Mountains–Fiction.   I.  Title.

PS3619.P467064 2011

813'.6–dc22

2010042002

First Edition: April 2011

eISBN 978-1-4299-2024-7

First Minotaur Books eBook Edition: April 2011