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      Alafair Burke

      Long Gone

      Copyright

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      First published in the U.S.A by HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY, 2011

      Winning first published 2011 in the UK by Avon

      Published by HarperCollins Publishers 2011

      LONG GONE. Copyright © Alafair Burke 2011. 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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      Alafair Burke asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Source ISBN: 9781847561121

      Ebook Edition © JUNE 2011 ISBN: 9781847562623

      Version: 2018-07-25

      In memory of David Thompson

      Contents

       Title Page

      Copyright

      Prologue: The Kiss

      Part I: Too Good to be True

      Chapter One

      Most of the best things in life came to Alice…

      Chapter Two

      Becca Stevenson had a secret.

      Chapter Three

      Four days after Alice first met Drew Campbell at the…

      Chapter Four

      Hank Beckman watched the digital numbers change on the pump,…

      Chapter Five

      There was a time when the name of Manhattan’s Meatpacking…

      Chapter Six

      Drew accelerated through the loop into the Holland Tunnel. She…

      Chapter Seven

      Joann Stevenson felt a tongue between her toes and jerked…

      Chapter Eight

      “Please tell me this is one of your practical jokes.”

      Chapter Nine

      Thanks to the radio station’s Two-for-Tuesday playlist, Hank lost track…

      Chapter Ten

      Alice remembered a time when the sultry baritone of her…

      Chapter Eleven

      Joann could not help but feel she was somehow being…

      Chapter Twelve

      Alice blew hot breaths into her cupped fists, trying to…

      Chapter Thirteen

      Alice had been hunched over her laptop so long that…

      Chapter Fourteen

      Hank Beckman made it to Jersey before the crack of…

      Chapter Fifteen

      Her apartment had to be cold—it always was in the…

      Chapter Sixteen

      “God damn it.”

      Chapter Seventeen

      How did this happen?

      Chapter Eighteen

      Hank threw an offhand wave toward Charlie Dixon as he…

      Chapter Nineteen

      Even with his eyes closed, Morhart would have known his…

      Chapter Twenty

      Alice was bundled in Jeff’s white terry bathrobe, her hair…

      Chapter Twenty-One

      Morhart was at Linwood High School for the second day…

      Chapter Twenty-Two

      Alice was in her bed, thinking about friendship.

      Part II: Nothing to Hide

      Chapter Twenty-Three

      You’ve heard what they say about pictures and a thousand…

      Chapter Twenty-Four

      “Lady, first you want me to go to Jersey. Now…

      Chapter Twenty-Five

      “What do you mean, she had a cell phone?”

      Chapter Twenty-Six

      Hank Beckman was only forty-eight years old, but there were…

      Chapter Twenty-Seven

      The city of New York claims more than eight million…

      Chapter Twenty-Eight

      It had been four weeks since Alice’s last visit to…

      Chapter Twenty-Nine

      Only forty miles of road separated Dover, New Jersey, from…

      Chapter Thirty

      “Fuck, I feel guilty. I sat here and bitched for…

      Chapter Thirty-One

      Hank Beckman felt like a dying man who had planned…

      Chapter Thirty-Two

      There was a time when the Upper East Side was…

      Chapter Thirty-Three

      It had been five days since Becca Stevenson had disappeared,…

      Chapter Thirty-Four

      “Now we’re at the height of our practice. Trikonasana, triangle…

      Chapter Thirty-Five

      Alice tried to make herself small inside the tiny alcove…

      Chapter Thirty-Six

      Hank Beckman popped his third Advil in as many hours.

      Chapter Thirty-Seven

      It was Alice’s second trip to the Upper East Side,…

      Chapter Thirty-Eight

      “This might have been a bad idea.”

      Chapter Thirty-Nine

      “Good

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