Guns in the Gallery

Sam Torino remarried. A Russian oligarch this time, one who spent most of his life in London and who always liked to have an attractive woman on his arm. It was a good career move for her which was loved by the gossip columns, who devoted a lot of energy to inventing new ‘Beauty and the Beast’ headlines. Force of habit meant that she ignored Jude’s advice and continued to be full-on Sam Torino all the time. She still had a lot of pain from her back, but nobody would ever have known it.

There was no reconciliation between Bonita Green and her daughter Ingrid. But then they’d never had that much in common.

Carole Seddon had her week at the end of May with Gaby and Lily. Of course they didn’t go to Walden. The friends they were coming to West Sussex with had cried off at the last minute, so they ended up staying at High Tor. An arrangement which, to Carole’s surprise, worked rather well. But how could anything fail if it involved someone as gorgeous as her granddaughter? Lily was very pleased with the photograph of her that hung in her grandmother’s sitting room, and she never found out what had happened to the man who framed it.

Next door at Woodside Cottage, Jude continued her work of healing. At times she felt rather claustrophobic in the confines of Fethering, but no one would have known that from the customary serenity of her demeanour.