Taking Lives

Michael Pye

Original title: Taking lives

earliest edition we have, 1999 Thorndike Press, 1999 535 pages

A riveting psychological novel about a young serial killer who takes on the identities of his victims. The first one he didn't really have to kill. The young college-bound kid had been hit by a car. He was almost, if not already, dead when Martin Arkenhout smashed his head with a stone. With this chilling opening scene, Michael Pye begins a daring and suspenseful novel about the fragile borders that define who we ar...

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Taking Lives paperback · 2004 · Vintage · 304 pages · 9781400075737
Taking Lives paperback · 2004 · Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) · 384 pages · 9780753820230
Taking lives edition · 1999 · Phoenix House · 370 pages
Taking lives edition · 1999 · Thorndike Press · 535 pages
Taking lives edition · 1999 · A.A. Knopf · 295 pages

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