'A wicked tongue is worse than any fiend' (Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales: The Manciple's Tale, 1395) Tongues are wagging in a sleepy English seaside town after a well-respected couple die within weeks of each other. Businessman Sam Shepton killed himself. At his inquest, his heartbroken son blamed his mother, Amanda, branding her a 'black widow'. A few days later, he discovers her body. The talking begins, accusations are made, secret lives...