BLURB AND REVIEWS
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WHEN BEAUTIFUL BARBARA Longman is found dead in a meadow, uprooted wild flowers strewn about her and, in her hand, a single marigold, Inspector Joe Rafferty at first believes the murder may be the work of the serial killer over the county border in Suffolk.
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BUT THEN HE MEETS THE victim’s family – and, after liaising with the Suffolk CID, he rapidly comes to believe that the killing is the work of a copycat...one much closer to home, someone among the descendants of the long-dead wealthy family patriarch, Maximillian Shore.
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EVERYONE, IT SEEMS, had a motive: Henry the grieving widower; the victim’s brother-in-law Charles Shore, the ruthless tycoon; Henry’s first wife, the Bohemian Anne, who has lost the custody of Maxie, her teenage son to the saintly Barbara. E
