Prior Bad Acts (38 page)

Bantam Books by Tami Hoag

PRIOR BAD ACTS

KILL THE MESSENGER

DARK HORSE

DUST TO DUST

ASHES TO ASHES

A THIN DARK LINE

GUILTY AS SIN

NIGHT SINS

DARK PARADISE

CRY WOLF

STILL WATERS

LUCKY’S LADY

PRIOR BAD ACTS

A Bantam Book / April 2006

Published by Bantam Dell

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New York, New York

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright © 2006 by Indelible Ink, Inc.

Bantam Books is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hoag, Tami.

Prior bad acts / Tami Hoag.

p.         cm.

1. Judges—Crimes against—Fiction.         2. Women judges—Fiction.         3. Minneapolis (Minn.)—Fiction.         4. Mass murder—Fiction.         I. Title.

PS3558.O333P75         2006

813'.54—dc22

2005053654

Published simultaneously in Canada

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eISBN: 978-0-553-90245-7

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