The Lizard's Bite

THE LIZARD’S BITE

A Delacorte Book / November 2006

Published by Bantam Dell

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New York, New York

This 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.

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Copyright © 2006 by David Hewson

Title page photograph by Khin Yee Teoh

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

Hewson, David

The lizard’s bite/David Hewson

p. cm.

1. Police—Italy—Venice—Fiction. 2. Venice (Italy)—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6058.E96 L59 2006 2006044479

823/.914 22

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