Nick Everard Bücher

Leicestershire-based Dominic Mallory has made sufficient money in the City to retire at forty-eight, and is looking for interesting things to do. Having served briefly as an Army officer in the 1980s, he contacts his former Regiment, Prince Rupert's Horse, and asks whether it has a project he can assist with.

How would you carry out the perfect murder? This is the conundrum confronting recently widowed farmer John Gault, when friends encourage his dormant writing ambitions to distract him from his recent loss.