It's a Crime (23 page)

About the Author

J
ACQUELINE
C
AREY
lives with her family in New Jersey. Her previous novels include
Good Gossip,
part of which appeared in
The New Yorker,
and
The Crossley Baby,
which garnered her a Guggenheim Fellowship. She used to write a mystery column for
Salon.com
.

ALSO BY JACQUELINE CAREY

The Crossley Baby

Wedding Pictures

The Other Family

Good Gossip

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

Copyright © 2008 by Jacqueline Carey

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

B
ALLANTINE
and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Carey, Jacqueline.

It’s a crime : a novel / Jacqueline Carey.—1st ed.

p.                            cm.

1. Accounting fraud—Fiction. 2. Corporations—Corrupt practices—Fiction. 3. Victims of crimes—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3553.A668555I77 2008

813'.54—dc22                                              2008005494

www.ballantinebooks.com

eISBN: 978-0-345-50739-6

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