Fate Worse Than Death

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Perhaps someone thought it funny to remove William unceremoniously from his toadstool, leaving a ransom note demanding half a pound of jelly babies, but Beryl didn't. Especially since her daughter had disappeared only two days before. Enter Inspector Martin Tait, on holiday visiting his elderly Aunt Con. He has designs on the pretty daughter of his ex-boss, Chief Inspector Douglas Quantrill, and expectations from Aunt Con. But then Tait has one or two shattering surprises in store... The fifth of the Quantrill novels is an engrossing story of love and terror, bitterness and suspicion in the tranquillity of rural Suffolk.