The Late Lady — Susannah Stacey

ACCIDENTS CAN HAPPEN...

A bloodcurdling scream rent the peaceful Kent air--and sent Detective-Superintendent Robert Bone racing inside the house where he'd just dropped off teenaged hitchhiker Ravenna Marsh. He found her staring in shock at two bodies on the hall floor: Anna, the housekeeper, her neck tilted at an impossible angle, and Ysobel Marsh, Ravenna's elegant grandmother, in the throes of a heart attack.

By the time the ambulance arrived Bone had Ysobel Marsh resting comfortably; a skateboard carelessly left at the top of the stairs accounted for the unlucky Anna. But when the body of the long-missing explorer Kingsley Marsh--Ravenna's mother--was gruesomely discovered, Bone suspected Anna's death was murder. And while he questioned famous author-turned-TV screenwriter Jake Marsh and the rest of the intricate household, a resolute killer was plotting the next nasty accident....