A Second Shot in the Dark

By Annette Roome

Murder was like marriage, she suspected. Appearances could deceive.

Chris Martin, housewife turned reporter, was still hoping for a ceasefire at the end of her twenty-year marriage. Now living with Pete, shell-shocked from his own domestic life, she reckoned she’d learned a thing or two about relationships.

So when the police decided that Rosemary Tindall, loving and supportive wife, homemaker, churchgoer and loyal employee, was just the unlucky, random victim of a serial murderer, Chris stayed obstinately unconvinced.

In spite of an ulcer-obsessed editor, condescension from the constabulary and no more than erratic support from Pete, she was determined that there was more to this killing than met the eye…

“A terrific debut for a wholly sympathetic, wryly witty sleuthess” The Times