Killer Instinct (17 page)

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons,
living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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First Simon Pulse hardcover edition May 2014

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Green, S. E., 1971–

Killer instinct / S. E. Green. — First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.

p. cm.

Summary: When seventeen-year-old Lane becomes involved in the search

for a serial killer active in the Washington, D.C., area, she worries that her lifelong fascination with such murderers has a very real and terrible cause.

[1. Serial murderers—Fiction. 2. Family life—Washington (D.C.)—Fiction.

3. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 4. High schools—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction.

6. Criminal investigation—Fiction. 7. United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation—Fiction. 8. Washington (D.C.)—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.G82632Kil 2014 [Fic]—dc23 2013037119

ISBN 978-1-4814-0285-9