The Dead Mrs McIntyre

About the Book

Victorian London. Brilliant young barrister Henry Jones and his wife, Lucy, are expecting their first child. Complications develop, and the celebrated surgeon Bryan Trembarth takes Lucy to his private hospice, but Lucy dies in childbirth. Devastated, Henry seeks solitude in the English countryside. In Heathfield, East Sussex, Henry is stalked by a beautiful young girl. When these mysterious visitations turn violent, Henry flees from Heathfield and returns to the Bar in London. During the most important defence case of his career, he receives information that his child may still be alive. The trail of these rumours leads him to Scotland. And in discovering the horrific truth of his wife’s death, Henry also learns the value of true friendship—and the possibility of new love.

About the Author

Richard Watkins is an avid reader of military history. During fifty years as professional tax consultant, traveller, rally driver and navigator, and medieval re-enactor, Richard has developed a strong love of wild, desolate places and circumstances demanding immense human endurance. A member of the Historical Novel Society of Australia, Richard has been writing since early childhood, including a medieval trilogy. The Dead Mrs McIntyre is his first book in the gothic/mystery genre. Richard has two adult daughters and lives in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, where he and his artist wife have converted a 138-year-old stone church into their private library and art gallery.