Let This be Our Secret

Deric Henderson

ISBN 10: 0717147703 / ISBN 13: 9780717147700

Published by Gill, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Let This be Our Secret
• Publisher: Gill
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0717147703
• ISBN 13: 9780717147700
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 370 grams

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Synopsis

Let This Be Our Secret is a remarkable true crime story set on Ireland's north coast where the bodies of a couple were found in a car filled with carbon monoxide fumes - the apparent victims of a suicide pact. But 18 years later, wealthy dentist Colin Howell confessed to police that it was he and his then lover, Hazel Buchanan, who murdered their respective partners. All four belonged to Coleraine Baptist Church. Howell later re-married an American divorcee while Buchanan, a mother of two, eventually began a new life with a senior policeman who was once a staff officer to the former RUC Chief Constable Hugh Annesley. Howell went on to run hugely successful dental implant surgeries in Ballymoney, Co. Antrim and Bangor, Co. Down, but despite his strong Baptist beliefs, he lived a secret life of lust, deceit and greed. It was to prove to be his undoing when his life unravelled spectacularly at Christmas 2008 with heavy overseas investment losses linked to a project to find Japanese gold hidden in the Philippines. And he has admitted other affairs and sexual advances to his dental patients. Hazel Buchanan, Howell's ex-lover, also re-married. She emerged as a high-maintenance and glamorous keep-fit fanatic who according to friends always had a haunted look, fearing that sooner or later an investigating police officer would one day tap her on the shoulder. Out of Northern Ireland's dark and troubled history has emerged a crime like no other.

About the Author

Deric Henderson is the former Ireland Editor of the Press Association, the national news agency for the UK and Ireland. He worked as a journalist in his home town of Omagh, Co Tyrone, London, but mostly Belfast for more than 40 years. He was named Northern Ireland Journalist of the Year in 2010 and in 2014 was awarded the MBE for services to journalism. He shares his time between Belfast and the North Coast and is married to Clare. They have two sons, Deric Jnr and Edward.