The Dead Girls Detective Agency
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“And she’ll be here in twenty minutes.” She tucked a curl behind her ear and stared down at her watch. “So we should, you know …”
I looked at Nancy and Lorna and smiled. “Get on with what we’re here for?” I asked.
Since I’d died, the one thing I’d learned was that nothing was what it seemed—not my boyfriend, not my life, and certainly not my death. But if you had friends to help you through, well, maybe none of that mattered. Maybe it would be okay.
“Come on,” I said, grabbing Lorna’s shoulder and silently giggling at her face as I dared to ruffle the arm of her perfect blue Marc J dress. “It looks as though I’m the newest member of the Dead Girls Detective Agency. Whether I like it or not.”
Tess, Lorna, and Nancy hurried down the stairs to HHQ.
“Hey,” Edison said, grabbing my hand as I walked past and pulling me close, “I happen to like it very much.”
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Suzy Cox is deputy editor of Cosmopolitan UK. She lives in London, but she loves New York.
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Dead Girls Detective Agency
Copyright © 2012 by Suzy Cox
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cox, Suzy.
The Dead Girls Detective Agency / Suzy Cox.—1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: “When Charlotte is pushed in front of the F train, she wakes up as the newest member of the Dead Girls Detective Agency and learns that she must solve her own murder before she can pass to the Other Side”—Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978-0-06-202064-2
EPub Edition © JULY 2012 9780062190109
[1. Mystery and detective stories. 2. Dead—Fiction. 3. Murder—Fiction. 4. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.C83933De 2012
2012006567
[Fic]—dc23
CIP
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