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Minotaur Books
March 2015
On Sale: February 24, 2015
Featuring: David Alden; Melody Pieterson; Eve Elliot
ISBN: 125004121X
EAN: 9781250041210
Kindle: B00J3C4RZK
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Mystery Police Procedural | Thriller | Suspense
Six years ago, Melody Pieterson was attacked and left for dead. Only a chance encounter with a dog walker saved her life. Melody's neighbor and close friend David Alden was found guilty of the crime and imprisoned, and the attack and David's betrayal of her friendship left Melody a different person. She no longer trusts her own judgment, she no longer trusts her friends. In fact, she no longer really has any friends. Sheβs built a life behind walls and gates and security codes; sheβs cloistered herself away from the world almost entirely. And then, soon after David is released from prison, Eve Elliot is murdered in an attack almost identical to Melodyβs. With the start of a new police investigation, Melody is suddenly pulled from her ordered, secluded life and back into the messy world around her. But as she learns more about Eve's murder, Melody starts to wonder if perhaps David hadnβt betrayed her after all...if perhaps the killer is someone else entirely, someone whoβs still out there, preparing to strike again. Narrated alternately by Melody and by Eveβs lingering ghost, The Life I Left Behind is a taut thriller and an intimate look at two young women bound together in ways neither of them could ever have predicted. Colette McBeth has proven once again that she is a master of suspense.
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