Accused: A Rosato & Associates Novel (43 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

LISA SCOTTOLINE is a
New York Times
bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author of twenty-one novels. She has served as the president of Mystery Writers of America, and her recent novel
Look Again
has been optioned for a feature film. She is a weekly columnist for
The Philadelphia Inquirer,
and her columns have been collected in four books and optioned for television. She has 25 million copies of her books in print in the United States, and she has been published in thirty countries. She lives in the Philadelphia area with an array of disobedient pets. Visit
www.scottoline.com
or follow Lisa on Facebook or Twitter.

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.

ACCUSED.
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Cover design by Rob Grom

The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

ISBN 978-1-250-02765-8 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-250-02766-5 (e-book)

e-ISBN 9781250027665

First Edition: November 2013