Fallen

ALSO BY KARIN SLAUGHTER

Blindsighted

Kisscut

A Faint Cold Fear

Indelible

Like a Charm (Editor)

Faithless

Triptych

Beyond Reach

Fractured

Undone

Broken

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

Copyright © 2011 by Karin Slaughter

All rights reserved.

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

DELACORTE PRESS is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Slaughter, Karin

Fallen : a novel / Karin Slaughter.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-345-52822-3

1. Policewomen—Fiction. 2. Georgia—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3569.L275F37 2011

813′.54—dc22 2011004941

www.bantamdell.com

Jacket design: Carlos Beltran

Jacket photograph: Michael Trevillion

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