Profile (novel)

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Author Chris Westwood
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Genre Thriller
Published 2009

Profile is the tenth novel by Chris Westwood, a British author of children's and young adult fiction. It was first published in 2009, in a self-published edition. [1] It is a dark psychological thriller about a stalker. [2]

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