Chapter Three
Rafferty called the station and arranged for Mary Carmody, his sensible thirty something DS, to accompany him to the home of Mrs Raine Senior to break the news of her son's violent death. He left Llewellyn to supervise the routine work at the scene.
Only five minutes later, as Elaine Enderby had promised, they drew up outside another large, detached property. Unlike her son's picturesque, rambling riverside home, Stephanie Raine's was a conventional Georgian property with no lumps of stone meandering in a haphazard manner off from the main structure. Here all was formality and the clean lines that were Rafferty's preferred building style. The conservative simplicity of the house gave him a perhaps unreasonable hope that when she learned of Raymond's death, Stephanie Raine's
