Loved itthis was a wonderful reread this was the second time that I read this book which is the second novel by one of my favorite authors
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Bellman & Black (2013)
Others: Positive Killing a bird with his slingshot as a boy, William Bellman grows up a wealthy family man unaware of how his act of childhood cruelty will have terrible consequences until a wrenching tragedy compels him to enter into a macabre bargain with a stranger in black.
- ISBN:
- 9781444821734
- Length:
- 320 pages
Genres: historical fiction
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