Practise to Deceive

by Stuart David Williams

"The cold-blooded murder of Kevin Rees, Auxiliary Nurse at the private Howell Clinic for stroke victims, is greeted with apparent sorrow by all who knew him - well, nearly all. 'A born nurse' is the summation of his professional qualities by colleagues and patients alike. But is Dr. Edwin Howell, maverick neuro-psychiatrist, and co-owner of the clinic set in the shadow of Llandaff's Anglican Cathedral, just saving face when he anxiously divines the crime was the work of a burglar?" "Only when DCI Merlin Parry rejects such a facile solution and digs deeper into Rees's background do the unsavoury aspects of the young man's life surface. The police investigation reveals details of Rees's time not only at the clinic, but also in the army, at St. Mark's Hospital in London, and more especially with the London Ambulance Service. Was Denis Ingram, the rich and successful industrialist, now a patient at the Howell Clinic, somehow indebted to Rees? And why is Ingram's possibly unfaithful wife in