<p><strong>How would you carry out the perfect murder?</strong></p><p>This is the conundrum confronting recently widowed farmer John Gault, when friends encourage his dormant writing ambitions to distract him from his recent loss.<br><br>It¿s harder than it sounds ¿ especially with no particular victim in mind.<br><br>But suddenly an idea presents itself.<br><br>As he works it through with Sarah, herself widowed not long ago under somewhat mysterious circumstances, his evolving book plot gradually becomes something altogether more sinister¿</p>