Why Someone Had to Die — Jan Roffman

Georgina Latham could scarcely have expected her decision to take in a lodger to so upset the scheme of things in the quiet village of Larksbridge. Indeed, on first acquaintance, Miss Helen Jones had seemed the ideal boarder: quiet, unassuming, possessed by an almost pathological shyness.

All of which made her sudden disappearance seem a harbinger of something very sinister to Georgina Latham, whose determination to find the girl soon involved her in a nightmarish sequence of bizarre events.

For unbeknown to Mrs. Latham, the young woman's reticence masked total commitment to a mission five years in the making. One of which her sole ally was the revolver she carried in her handbag...