The Ice Queen: A Novel (51 page)

NELE NEUHAUS is the author of
Snow White Must Die
and
Bad Wolf
. With close to five million copies of her books currently in print, she is one of the most widely read German mystery writers. Neuhaus lives near Frankfurt, Germany.

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.

THE ICE QUEEN.
Copyright © 2009 by Nele Neuhaus. English translation copyright © 2014 by Steven T. Murray. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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ISBN 978-0-312-60426-4 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4668-3691-4 (e-book)

e-ISBN 9781466836914

First published in Germany under the title
Tiefe Wunden
by List Taschenbuch, an imprint of Ullstein Buchverlage GmbH, Berlin.

First U.S. Edition: January 2015