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Sharon Marshall was a brilliant and beautiful student whose future was filled with promise. But her murderous, fugitive father had drawn her into a lifetime of deception that became one of the most baffling cases in the annals of American crime.
First publish date: 2004
Genre: Crime Fiction/Criminal Underworld
Authors: Matt Birkbeck
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