Down Among the Dead Men — Geraldine Evans

A FAMILY AFFAIR

When rich and beautiful Barbara Longman is found dead among the meadow flowers, Inspector Rafferty doesn't believe it's the latest grisly offering by the Suffolk serial killer - though he believes her killer would like him to think so.

Rafferty and Llewellyn suspect someone close to home - someone among the descendants of the family's long-dead patriarch, Maximillian Shore. Everyone, it seems, had a motive: Barbara's weak, ineffectual husband; Henry, her ruthless brother-in-law; as well as Henry's bitter ex-wife. And the police duo discover that Maximillian Shore can wield his influence even from the grave - in a twisted legacy of murder.