The Killing Circle (29 page)
My thanks to those who have helped this book—and helped me to write it—whether as listeners, questioners, editors or friends: Maya Mavjee, Julia Wisdom, John Parsley, Peter Joseph, Anne O’Brien, Anne McDermid, Martha Magor, Vanessa Matthews, Sally Riley, Lesley Thorne, Brent Sherman and Sean Kane.
Andrew Pyper was born in Stratford, Ontario in 1968. He is the author of international bestseller
Lost Girls,
selected as a
New York Times
Notable Book of the Year and currently in development by John Malkovich for a feature film adaptation. The film rights to
The Killing Circle
have been sold to the award-winning producers of
The Last King of Scotland.
Andrew Pyper lives in Toronto.
www.andrewpyper.com
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Lost Girls
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Kiss Me
This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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