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The Secret

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Deric Henderson

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English
Penguin
01 August 2016
The shocking true story of a killer dentist, his mistress, how they murdered their spouses - and how they almost got away with it.

'It was a dance between control and manipulation' - Colin Howell at the trial of Hazel Stewart

May 1991. The location- a quiet seaside town. The scene- two bodies in a car filled with carbon monoxide. Police officer Trevor Buchanan and nurse Lesley Howell have apparently taken their own lives, unable to live with the pain of their spouses' affair with each other.

Their adulterous pair - Sunday school teacher Hazel Buchanan and dentist Colin Howell - had met in the local Baptist Church. Following the apparent double-suicide, they continue their affair but later marry other people.

A series of disasters in Howell's life - bereavement, financial disaster, sexual scandal - prompt him share his darkest secrets to the elders of his church. He reveals that he and Hazel Stewart had conspired to murder their spouses nearly two decades earlier.

That confession leads to two of the most sensational murder investigations ever seen in the UK, Howell's conviction for murder in December 2010 and Stewart's in March 2011. She continues to protest her innocence.
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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Media tie-in
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   224g
ISBN:   9781844883905
ISBN 10:   1844883906
Pages:   304
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Recommended Age:   From 0 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Deric Henderson spent two years investigating the background to this extraordinary story. Henderson was Ireland Editor of the Press Association and the 2010 Northern Ireland Journalist of the Year.

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