Whittaker's wife

Why Lavinia Whittaker's husband, a millionaire, only left her a part share in a Rhodesian ranch was a mystery, for she had brought him both companionship and glamour. The partnership in the ranch is a strange one. It is worked by Joe Latham, a shrewd, intelligent settler, much liked by the neighbouring ranchers. For Lavinia however, the estate is merely a resort, a means to amuse her friends at annual houseparties; inevitably bitter animosities develop between her and the Lathams. Then, ostensibly to indulge her craving for danger, she organises a lion hunt—an especially perilous one since the animals are hungry and desperate after a long drought. But her apparent motive is not the only one: Lavinia sees a chance to recover some of the fortune Jordan Whittaker withheld from her in his will, and to do it my means of another woman's husband—creatures who are as much her natural prey as is big game. Fears and hatreds accumulate and reach explosive point as the hunting party bring a wounded and murderous lion to bay.