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The Make. Jessie Keane
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Автор произведения Jessie Keane
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JESSIE KEANE
The Make
Copyright
Copyright © Jessie Keane 2011
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ISBN: 9780007349395
Ebook Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780007332922
Version: 2018-02-16
All my love, as always, to Cliff
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Gracie: December
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
George and Harry: October
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Gracie: December
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
George and Harry: November
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Gracie: December
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
George and Harry: November
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Gracie: December
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
George and Harry: December
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Gracie: December
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Christmas Day
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
After Christmas
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
New Year’s Eve
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Jessie Keane
DECEMBER
18 December
The instant the police were ushered into her office over the casino, Gracie Doyle knew there was trouble brewing. She was slouching in her chair, with her aching bare feet up on her desk after a long, long day. It was a cold, blustery Friday night, and in precisely a week’s time – seven days! Count ’em – it would be Christmas Day.
She was already sick of all the jingle-bells and fake bonhomie, the endless Wizard and Slade tracks being pumped out of every shopping mall’s sound system, the crazed crush of people wherever you went. Bad things happened at Christmas. For instance, her dad had died just before last Christmas Day. Fatal heart attack, right there in the middle of the casino boulevard. Boom! One minute there, the next – gone. Gracie hated Christmas.
Now she