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    Playthings
    Playthings
    Playthings
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    Playthings

    By Michelle Birbeck

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    Finding someone to play with is difficult enough when killing them can mean going to jail. But that doesn't stop this serial killing duo. They've been killing together for years, selecting victims and covering each others' backs. But now one of them has broken the rules, leaving the other wanting for blood.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichelle Birbeck
    Release dateJun 25, 2014
    ISBN9781310292019
    Playthings
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    Michelle Birbeck

    Michelle is 29 and has been reading and writing her whole life. Her earliest memory of books was when she was five and decided to try and teach her fish how to read by putting her Beatrix Potter books in the fish tank with them.Since then her love of books has grown, and now she is writing her own and looking forward to seeing them on her shelves, though they won’t be going anywhere near the fish tank.When she’s not writing, she’s out and about on her motorbike or sitting with her head in a book.

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