The Night She Died

Ten years on from closing the case, the name Connie Freeman means very little to Detective Inspector Richard Patton.

But when Connie turns up on his doorstep, the memory comes flooding back.

The memory of a brutal murder, of a woman bludgeoned to death.

The victim, Sylvia Thomas, was the mistress of Connie's husband, the womaniser Harry Martin.

Connie knew of her husband's infidelity and so Richard and his team assumed she possessed a motive - and they convicted Connie of murder.

It was a case he would rather forget, but now Connie has returned - and she is determined to prove her innocence.

The straightforward case of a wife seeking revenge on her husband's mistress begins to unravel and Richard becomes more and more intrigued about what he had got wrong.

Now he is determined to find out the truth about Sylvia and what happened on 'The Night She Died'.

'The Night She Died' is an atmospheric police thriller that is perfect for fans of Peter James and Peter Robinson.

Praise for Roger Ormerod:

"Eclectic, underrated Ormerod can be relied upon to come up with the startling goods" Sunday Times

"I am glad to announce that the detective novel is still alive and well in Mr Ormerod's skillful hands " The Spectator

"Fast-moving, with well-orchestrated jiggery-pokery; not unlike an early Dick Francis in tone and method" Times Literary Supplement

Roger Ormerod (1920-2005) was a prolific writer of ingenious and densely plotted crime novels - some 35 in all - which were published in the UK and the USA. He lived in Wolverhampton and amongst other things worked as a civil servant and as a Social Security inspector – backgrounds which he made full use of in his fiction, as he did with his hobbies of painting and photography.