A Deadly Episode

It screamed Hastings – with or without the unseen echoes of history – and provided a striking contrast to the grimness of Diana Cowper’s crime. It felt strange, almost like an out-of-body experience, to be watching something that had happened for real. He couldn’t move the body on the Friday night, not with so many people at Foss Hall, and whatever happened, he was determined that his wife, Deborah, shouldn’t learn the truth. Suddenly Rupert was the prime suspect and once the truth about what had really happened at the time of his car accident came out, it was only going to get worse. ‘Harry had done what he thought was the right thing but now he was in an impossible position.