Creep

by R. M. Greenaway

A note about location: I have taken some liberties with the geography of North Vancouver; there is no Mesachee, and no spur of road called Greer with a creepy old house on it. Otherwise I have tried to be accurate.

  Mystery and Crime Fiction

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  Copyright © R.M. Greenaway, 2018

  All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise (except for brief passages for purpose of review) without the prior permission of Dundurn Press. Permission to photocopy should be requested from Access Copyright.

  All characters in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

  Cover image: istock.com/Koshenyamka

  Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

  Greenaway, R. M., author

  Creep / R.M. Greenaway.

  (A B.C. blues crime novel)

  Issued in print and electronic formats.

  ISBN 978-1-4597-3989-5 (softcover).--ISBN 978-1-4597-3990-1 (PDF).--

  ISBN 978-1-4597-3991-8 (EPUB)

  I. Title. II. Series: Greenaway, R. M. B.C. blues crime novel.

  PS8613.R4285C74 2018 C813’.6 C2017-905985-8

  C2017-905986-6

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  Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.

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