Was tom acton a strict but loving father who just cared a bit too much about his family'? '.strtoupper('o')r was he a mentally deranged killer, who shot his own daughter to death because she'd dared to disobey him'? '.strtoupper('t')hese were the agonising questions that faced his wife, carol, and the chilling true story of the acton murder case is told in deadly whispers, a tense and powerfully acted thriller starring tony danza taxi, pamela reed proof of life, ving rhames pulp fiction, mission impossible and heather tom the young and the restless'. '.strtoupper('p')retty, flirtatious kathy acton is a 19 year old who thinks nothing of having an affair with a married man'. '.strtoupper('t')hen, one day, she goes missing'. '.strtoupper('h')er parents, tom and carol, are devastated when a badly mutilated body is discovered'. '.strtoupper('b')ut as the police begin to investigate, they are forced to confront carol with a terrifying possibility that the truth behind the killing could lie very close to home.