Murder

MURDER: PAST TENSEOn the very night the world learns of the assassination of an American president a young girl runs away from home. The fourteen year old is escaping from a lifetime of abuse by her step father. She cannot know what lies ahead of her, only that she is leaving behind the man she has loathed for years, and who she has left bleeding on the kitchen floor after plunging a knife into him. Jenny makes a new life for herself, hopeful that the police will never arrest her for the murder of Ernie.Thirty years on and Sophie Curtiss is visiting old friends in the small market town of Willowford. When a woman is found dead and a vicious blackmailer is uncovered, Sophie and her friends are inexplicably drawn into the mystery. But who is the killer? There appears to be quite a number of people who are glad to see her dead. An arrest, then another death and it is only when Sophie accidentally stumbles on the details of a past crime, that the real truth is known....