Better Than Sorry

When eighty-year-old Donald Swain fires up his mobility scooter one fateful Tuesday in spring, the only death playing on his mind is that of his late wife. But that soon changes when a red mist seeps into his head as he trundles down Shoreham High Street and he comes face to midriff (well, he is on a mobility scooter) with the man he has spent quite a lot of time trying to forget. Don yields to a moment's rage and the ensuing mayhem caused by his actions has the potential to change the rest of his life for ever. So why isn't he bothered?Tanis Ellingham is intrigued. Drawn into the aftermath of his heinous crime, she embarks on a somewhat haphazard quest to meet Don's siblings to piece together his past and finds out far more than she could ever have bargained for.