Kith and Kill

This tells the story of the murder of the matriarch of a family of fashion designers. Sophia Egerton had just celebrated her ninetieth birthday. Was it, Rafferty wondered, that one of her family had thought she had lived too long? Because rather than a locked room, this is a 'locked house' mystery with a limited cast of suspects. Rafferty's family have a celebration of their own, a celebration of Rafferty's father's life and death - like Shakespeare, these events occurred on the same day separated by seventy years. But what to buy Ma as a gift to mark the occasion? Rafferty sets out to convince his siblings that his gift idea is the best. But none of them had remembered that Ma has a mind of her own...