Chapter NineLlewellyn made light work of delegating the alibi checking and when he re-joined Rafferty ten minutes’ later, Rafferty was thankful to note that Llewellyn had recovered his equilibrium. He was anxious to review the progress of the investigation and needed the Welshman’s logical input.
Rafferty, feet up on the desk and a mug of strong tea at his elbow, was unsurprised that Llewellyn should return with the news that Mary Soames had been correct in her surmise about what had happened to Aurora’s long vanished daddy, Earl Ray.
Aurora's father was dead, under all of his aliases, Llewellyn now revealed. He had been gunned down two years previously in some drug gang war of attrition.
Rafferty nodded, took a gulp of his tea and remarked, ‘That leaves young Hakim's father and Jane's
