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Name: The Usual Desire to Kill
Rating: 4.3 (4 reviews)
Author: Camilla Barnes
ISBN: 9781668062838

The Usual Desire to Kill

A Novel

by Camilla Barnes

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Apr 1, 2025, 256 pages

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Excerpted from The Usual Desire to Kill by Steven Barnes. Copyright © 2025 by Steven Barnes. Excerpted by permission of Scribner. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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