No Mark upon Her

by Deborah Crombie

  And I am, as always, grateful for the support and encouragement of my agent, Nancy Yost; my editor, Carrie Feron; and all the team at HarperCollins who continue to do such a wonderful job on the books.

  And last but not least, love and thanks to my husband, Rick, and my daughter, Kayti, for being there.

  All the characters and events portrayed in this book are entirely fictional, and any mistakes are entirely my own.

  About the Author

  A native Texan who has lived in both England and Scotland, DEBORAH CROMBIE is a three-time Macavity Award winner, an Edgar Award nominee, and a New York Times Notable author. She is the author of more than a dozen novels, including the recent Necessary as Blood and Dreaming of the Bones, which was selected as one of the 100 Best Crime Novels of the Century by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. She lives in McKinney, Texas, sharing a house that is more than one hundred years old with her husband, three cats, and two German shepherds.

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  Books by Deborah Crombie

  No Mark upon Her

  Necessary as Blood

  Where Memories Lie

  Water Like a Stone

  In a Dark House

  Now May You Weep

  And Justice There Is None

  A Finer End

  Kissed a Sad Goodbye

  Dreaming of the Bones

  Mourn Not Your Dead

  Leave the Grave Green

  All Shall Be Well

  A Share in Death

  Credits

  Cover design by James Iacobelli

  Cover photograph © by Rob Lambert/Arcangel Images

  Copyright

  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.

  NO MARK UPON HER. Copyright © 2012 by Deborah Crombie. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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  ISBN 978-0-06-199061-8

  EPub Edition © FEBRUARY 2012 ISBN 9780062100696

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