THE BENEFICIARY

By Corvin Sayer

England, 1981. When businessman Edward Hales is found dead in the River Great Ouse, the questions begin before his family has even buried him. His engineering firm is struggling, creditors are closing in, and a 110,000 life assurance claim demands an answer.

Daniel Sorel has only recently set up as an independent claims investigator. He expects an ordinary enquiry into a suspicious death. Instead, he finds a widow trying to protect two children, a brother fighting to save a business, a disputed signature and a bank with reasons to be economical with the truth.

Each witness knows only part of Edward's final days. Every document seems to settle one question while raising another. And when Sorel allows suspicion to harden into certainty, the consequences spread far beyond the insurance file.

Told by Sorel decades later, The Beneficiary is a quietly tense British crime mystery about money, loyalty, grief and the human cost of being wrong.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HQ51CFT2
• ISBN13: 9798167278301
• Release Date: November 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"