A family reunion and medieval-style murder? Ever so inconvenient.
Cosily ensconced in his eighteenth-century Cambridgeshire manor, bestselling mystery writer Sir Adrian Beauclerk-Fisk delights in tormenting his four grown children with threats of disinheritance. Then he announces his latest blow - he's engaged to Violet, a beautiful widow with a dubious past.
Money-driven panic soon sets in among the backstabbing brood when eldest son and appointed heir, Ruthven, turns up dead in the wine cellar. Who will win the inheritance sweepstakes? It's a house full of suspicion, greed, vengeful malice - and ample motives for murder. Can Detective Chief Inspector St. Just nab the killer before another heir lands in the family burial plot?
Praise for G.M. Malliet:
'Miss Marple would approve' Daily Mail
'A superb novel . . . a wonderful read' Louise Penny
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9781472117762
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 202 g
Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 19 mm
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