Up the Creek Without a Paddle

On July 23, middle-aged prison officer and his receptionist wife Anne from Hartlepool began prison sentences totalling nearly thirteen years. Their crime? Masterminding an extraordinary audacious fraud in which John faked his own death to claim life assurance payouts totalling £250,000. In this fascinating book, Tammy Cohen tells the remarkable true story of the man who came back from the dead, the wife who concealed his existence from the world and the web of deceit that finally ensnared them both.

Tammy Cohen is a successful freelance journalist whose pieces regularly appear in magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Woman and Home. She has written four other non-fiction books and divides her time between Spain and London.