Whispered Torment

A traumatic suspense story that unfolds through two strong female dialogues.


Rosemary has just become a widow, and her account begins when she meets Vincent Walberg, a widower himself. He has two grown-up children, Alison and Doug, and lives on his own cattle ranch in Zambia.


Alison starts her account with early memories of her mother being ill, and the strange healing powers that come to her through `the whisperers' in her head. From the beginning, all she wants is to gratify her father.


When Rosemary marries Vincent and they live together on the farm, she soon discovers that her new daughter-in-law, Alison, is reticent to communicate and not the friend she had expected.


On discovering Rosemary's steamy and deceitful relationship with her brother Doug, Alison's vengeance knows no bounds. `The whisperers' return to her head and she knows she must rid her father of this treacherous woman. She wants him to herself.


What follows is a tortuous unfolding of anxiety and murder, with Rosemary succumbing to a state of drunken depression and unable to understand why everything has gone so wrong for her in this foreign land.


Meanwhile `the whisperers' in Alison's head become ever stronger.