Fire in the Stars

by Barbara Fradkin

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

  Editor: Shannon Whibbs

  Design: Jennifer Gallinger

  Cover design: Laura Boyle

  Cover image: © Igor Zhuravlov/istock.com

  Epub Design: Carmen Giraudy

  Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

  Fradkin, Barbara Fraser, 1947-, author

  Fire in the stars / Barbara Fradkin.

  (An Amanda Doucette mystery)

  Issued in print and electronic formats.

  ISBN 978-1-4597-3239-1 (paperback).--ISBN 978-1-4597-3240-7 (pdf).--

  ISBN 978-1-4597-3241-4 (epub)

  I. Title.

  PS8561.R233F57 2016 C813’.6 C2015-906826-6

  C2015-906827-4

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