Hostage to Fortune

By Elizabeth Chaplin

That the Banthams’ long marriage was basically unhappy wasn’t at all news, or unusual…

What was wholly unexpected was Susan Bantham’s more than one-million-pound win in the pools.

For her lawyer husband Jeremy, the money is an answer to a prayer, giving him the comforts of a Rolls Royce and a new mistress.

Susan’s reaction is more profound…more sinister.

She has the chance to have a new image, different friends, an unexpected lover – and the opportunity to avenge herself for twenty years of frustration with Jeremy.

All she has to do is concoct a plan to trap her husband in a noose of his own making.

Unfortunately for them both, by the time he took a good look at his wife and her anger, someone had to die.

But no one could have guessed who, when and why…

A story of intense planning and cunningness, Hostage to Fortune is a rollercoaster of mind-play and revenge.

Elizabeth Chaplin was born in 1947, in Scotland. She is a British mystery writer and is best known for her series that features Lloyd and Judy Hill. Chaplin wrote her first novel when she left the British Steel Corporation in 1980.