A Fatal Necessity

DI Herbert Reardon investigates the murder of an enigmatic woman who left her comfortable life behind and mysteriously disappeared in this page—turning 1930s historical mystery with gasp—worthy revelations.

1935, Templewood, Worcestershire. Judge Waring’s glamorous wife Emilie is mysteriously missing and no one knows where she is – until she’s found the morning after a party at neighbouring Falquonroy Park, in a clearing in Templewood’s grounds, strangled yet neatly laid out next to two piec...