A loving husband

Amand and Steve Howard at a book signing

The afternoon Amanda found her husband Steve she screamed. Their 18-year-old son ran in to see what was wrong and he saw his Dad, motionless. His father had taken his own life and had forever changed theirs.

They were a very close and happy family. Steve himself had said to Amanda only the weekend before that he really had achieved everything that he thought he never could. A beautiful family, a wife he loved, his dream car and a job that he loved. Amanda describes how she never saw this one coming.

Amanda Howard is a true crime writer, she is familiar with the concept of death and destruction, but it was never more personal than now.

Only four-months after her husbands death Amanda sat down with me and tried to put words to the event that has forever changed her world.