The Fatal Secret

When his beautiful young wife Abby goes missing ex soldier Wayne Drummond is distraught and being suspected by the police of having killed her is even worse. With no trace of her being found he is close to despair when a small slip of paper gives him the smallest clue as to what may just possibly have happened. Determined to find her no matter what it might take he follows this clue and this leads him on a strange and dangerous quest to find the truth. He finds unexpected help from a young woman living apart from her husband and single-handedly rearing her son, a young, bright, but autistic child to whom Wayne takes to instinctively. When circumstances arise resulting in the death of her husband at Wayne’s hands matters become even more complicated, and it is only through the autistically unpredictable actions of the child that at last the solution to the mystery finally emerges.

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“She isn’t just lying dead; she is in a shallow grave just where you put her!” Wayne retorted savagely. “It has been a long hunt but I’ve found her and, by God, you are going to pay for what you have done!”

“I don’t know what the hell you are talking about,” DeFarge said vehemently, rising to his feet. “I don’t know anything about your wife and much less about what you are saying; how do I know you are not making all this up?”

“You will soon know if I’m making it up when the police get here!”

DeFarge took a deep breath and made a visible effort to control himself. “Look, let’s start again,” he said, “shouting at each other isn’t going to get either of us anywhere. You actually claim that there is a body out there somewhere?”

“I do.”

“Very well,” he said deliberately, “Show me and I will believe you.”