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2022: An anguished moment between lovers becomes a horrific murder.
Other Women
What you need to know before your trail
Six years after the end of the Great War, the country is still in mourning. Thousands of husbands, fathers, sons and sweethearts were lost forever, and the sea of women they left behind must carry on without them.
But Beatrice Cade is not a wife, not a widow, not a mother. There are thousands of other women like her: nameless and invisible. Determined to carve out a richer and more fulfilling life for herself, Bea takes a job in the City and a room in a Bloomsbury ladies’ club. Then a fleeting encounter changes everything. Her emerging independence is destroyed when she falls in love for the first time.
Kate Ryan is a wife, a mother, and an accomplished liar. She has managed to build an enviable life with her husband and young daughter. To anyone looking in from the outside, they seem like a normal, happy family.
On the south coast of England, an anguished moment between lovers becomes a horrific murder. And two women who should never have met are connected forever.
Travel Guide
Sussex and the true story of Emily Beilby Kaye
This story is inspired by the very real murder case which took place in April 1924. A woman by the name of Emily Beilby Kaye was murdered by her married lover Herbert Patrick Mahon.
In the author note, Emma says that this was a huge case at the time and that it was a milestone for developments in forensic science. There are a few real life figures in the story – namely Chief Inspector Savage of Scotland Yard who was the inspiration for DCI Wild. The autopsy of Mahon was carried out by the famous Sir Bernard Spilsbury who is fictionalised in the novel as Sir Richard Fawcett.
Some evidence from this case can be vieewed at the Black Museum of Scotland Yard in London.
BookTrail Boarding Pass: Other Women
Destination: London, Sussex Author/guide: Emma Flint Departure Time: 1924
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