Release Date: 19th June 2014
Pages:281
Publisher: Silverwood Books
Publisher: Silverwood Books
Walter had shared a home and a sort of life with her
for over sixteen years. When he came to think of it, that’d been a bit like a
game of chess too. He’d gone from the enthusiastic opening – through a midgame
of jogging along – to the end game of barbed neutrality, a sort of emotional
desert where no win was possible, a kind of stalemate. That had been the pattern
for the last five years.
Summer
1930 and Walter Bruce is told he has a terminal disease. With nursing care and
an easier job he could have five more years. With neither he may not see out
the year. But he’s got a wife to keep – one too selfish and idle to be his
nurse. When he finds out she’s been deceiving him about her past for years he
comes to a stark decision: if she won’t take care of him he’ll have to take
care of her – for good. He plans her removal like one of the chess problems he
loves. It will be the perfect murder; he’ll get away with it and enjoy his last
few years in comfort. But his carefully laid plans unravel, entangling him in a
slowly closing trap where truth and lies become confused…
Set in
between-the-wars Liverpool, Stalemate is a gripping tale of moral choices and terrible
punishment.
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