A Fatal Flaw: A gripping, twisty murder mystery perfect for all crime fiction fans

A Fatal Flaw: A gripping, twisty murder mystery perfect for all crime fiction fans
Faith Martin

The brand new Ryder & Loveday novel from global bestseller Faith Martin!Readers love the Ryder & Loveday series:‘Insanely brilliant’‘I absolutely loved this book’‘Faith Martin, you've triumphed again. Brilliant!’‘If you haven't yet read Miss Martin you have a treat in store’The Ryder and Loveday SeriesBook 1: A FATAL OBSESSIONBook 2: A FATAL MISTAKEBook 3: A FATAL FLAW

About the Author (#u9a9b0022-fff7-53be-9c8a-64e3339836dc)

FAITH MARTIN has been writing for nearly thirty years, under four different pen names, and has had her 50th novel published recently. She began writing romantic thrillers as Maxine Barry, but quickly turned to crime! Her latest series of classic-style whodunits, featuring amateur sleuth Jenny Starling is now being reissued. But it was when she created her fictional DI Hillary Greene, and began writing under the name of Faith Martin, that she finally began to become more widely known. Her latest literary characters WPC Trudy Loveday, and city coroner Dr Clement Ryder take readers back to the 1960s, and the city of Oxford. Having lived within a few miles of the city of dreaming spires for all her life, (she worked for six years as a secretary at Somerville College) both the city and the countryside/wildlife often feature in her novels. Although she has never lived on a narrowboat (unlike DI Hillary Greene!) the Oxford canal, the river Cherwell, and the flora and fauna of a farming landscape have always played a big part in her life – and often sneak their way onto the pages of her books.

Readers love the Ryder & Loveday series (#u9a9b0022-fff7-53be-9c8a-64e3339836dc)

‘Insanely brilliant’

‘I absolutely loved this book’

‘Faith Martin, you’ve triumphed again. Brilliant!’

‘If you haven’t yet read Miss Martin you have a treat in store’

‘I can safely say that I adore the series featuring Dr. Clement Ryder and Probationary WPC Trudy Loveday’

‘This book is such a delight to read. The two main characters are a joy’

‘Yet another wonderful book by Faith Martin!’

‘As always a wonderful story, great characters, great plot. This keeps you gripped from the first page to the last. Faith Martin is such a fantastic author’

Also by Faith Martin (#u9a9b0022-fff7-53be-9c8a-64e3339836dc)

A Fatal Obsession

A Fatal Mistake

A Fatal Flaw

FAITH MARTIN

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First published in Great Britain by HQ in 2019

Copyright © Faith Martin 2019

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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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E-book Edition © February 2019 ISBN: 9780008297787

Version: 2019-01-17

Table of Contents

Cover (#u9ff5799c-93f0-5792-bbfc-6d563f481920)

About the Author (#u964d069a-49b6-52ee-b61c-665f6cbff03e)

Readers Love the Ryder & Loveday Series (#ua5ab682b-9122-5490-8b53-b44acf404223)

Also by Faith Martin (#ue9500136-3a93-5419-acf5-b46d87c26052)

Title Page (#ub7fa784c-e7d5-50a1-b14b-7c7882421910)

Copyright (#uc67f0a88-b040-5db6-832d-10a3e3bed984)

Dedication (#ube1c6e02-e279-5871-b1d0-0e6fef42e031)

Oxford, England, 1960 (#u49ba8a78-fefd-5f75-85d5-53673d054ab2)

Prologue (#u7155019c-044b-5c80-b6e1-68d3d363a1d5)

Chapter 1 (#u41976311-1c0b-59ae-98f6-1bfb609b353a)

Chapter 2 (#u4b906303-03fe-5a87-a0a9-5716f87f5519)

Chapter 3 (#u37dfcce8-52a7-58a5-8ba6-6fac424807cb)

Chapter 4 (#u0c3329fd-826f-5736-8064-eb5dab6d35f8)

Chapter 5 (#u8f1eb5ab-bd24-58c0-b6cf-ea091f0e90fa)

Chapter 6 (#ua60fdd51-01d8-589f-8304-fa5246d031dd)

Chapter 7 (#u076aed85-f5a3-5bbf-b1ad-d24c125ee80d)

Chapter 8 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10 (#litres_trial_promo)