Authors: M. P. Cooley

Faint Trace (7 page)

M.P. COOLEY
's crime novel
Ice Shear
was named one of
O, The Oprah Magazine
's Best Books of Summer 2014 and was called “an excellent debut” by
Publishers Weekly
in their starred review. A native of upstate New York, she currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her second novel
Flame Out
will publish in May 2015.

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Ice Shear

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Flame Out
copyright Â© 2015 by Martha Cooley

FAINT TRACE.
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EPub Edition APRIL 2015 ISBN: 9780062414694

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