Murder At A Vineyard Mansion (2004) - Plot & Excerpts
That week the book was Prehistoric and Roman Britain, which had a lot of good pictures.Maud Mayhew’s pickup was parked in front of her house. The place had a vacant feel about it, as though no one had lived there for a while, and I wondered if Maud had gone away.But she had not. When she answered my knock, though, I saw in her lightless eyes that the vitality that usually animated her was missing, and I realized that it was the lack of this life force that gave the farm its abandoned air. Maud’s body was there but her son’s death had made it an almost empty shell.“Come in,” she said in an emotionless voice, and she turned and led me into the house. Although the rooms were clean and neat there was no sign of human life in them, no feeling of habitation other than by ghosts.I wondered if Harold’s death was going to kill his mother, if his murderer would be hers as well; or if, as women have done through the ages when their men and children die, she would rally and go on living, tougher and stronger than most men would be if bereft of wife and children.She waved me to a chair and said, “Would you like some tea?”“If you’re having some.”She nodded and went to the kitchen.
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