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       About the Author

      FAITH MARTIN has been writing for nearly thirty years, under four different pen names, and has published over fifty novels. She began writing romantic thrillers as Maxine Barry, but quickly turned to crime! As Joyce Cato she wrote classic-style whodunits, since she’s always admired the golden-age crime novelists. But it was when she created her fictional DI Hillary Greene, and began writing under the name of Faith Martin, that she finally began to become more widely known. Her latest literary characters WPC Trudy Loveday, and city coroner Dr Clement Ryder, take readers back to the 1960s, and the city of Oxford. Having lived within a few miles of the city’s dreaming spires for all her life (she worked for six years as a secretary at Somerville College), both the city and the countryside/wildlife often feature in her novels. Although she has never lived on a narrowboat (unlike DI Hillary Greene!) the Oxford canal, the river Cherwell, and the flora and fauna of a farming landscape have always played a big part in her life – and often sneak their way onto the pages of her books.

       Readers love the Ryder & Loveday series

      ‘Insanely brilliant’

      ‘I absolutely loved this book’

      ‘Faith Martin, you’ve triumphed again. Brilliant!’

      ‘If you haven’t yet read Miss Martin you have a treat in store’

      ‘I can safely say that I adore the series featuring Dr Clement Ryder and Probationary WPC Trudy Loveday’

      ‘This book is such a delight to read. The two main characters are a joy’

      ‘Yet another wonderful book by Faith Martin!’

      ‘As always a wonderful story, great characters, great plot. This keeps you gripped from the first page to the last. Faith Martin is such a fantastic author’

       Also by Faith Martin

       A Fatal Obsession

       A Fatal Mistake

       A Fatal Flaw

       A Fatal Secret

      A Fatal Truth

      FAITH MARTIN

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      First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2020

      Copyright © Faith Martin

      Faith Martin asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      E-book Edition © June 2020 ISBN: 9780008336165

      Version: 2020-03-02

      Table of Contents

       Cover

      About the Author

      Readers love the Ryder & Loveday series

      Also by Faith Martin

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Chapter 27

       Chapter 28

       Chapter 29

       Chapter 30

       Chapter 31

       Chapter 32

       Chapter 33

       Chapter 34

       Chapter 35

       Chapter 36

       Extract of A Fatal Affair

       Author’s Note:

       Dear Reader …

       Keep Reading …

       About the Publisher

       For all my readers who remember the 1960s with affection. And to all my readers too young to remember them!

       PROLOGUE

       Oxford,

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