Murder At The Old Vicarage

Description for MURDER AT THE OLD VICARAGE by Jill McGown:

FOR CHRISTMAS THE VICAR'S SON-IN-LAW GOT WHAT WAS COMING TO HIM.

A Killing blow on the head took the life of Graham Elstow, and the vicar and his wife were more relieved than grieved by their son-in-law's death. Elstow had beaten their beloved daughter, Joanna, so severely only a few months earlier that she had landed in the hospital, and he had struck her again on the day he died. But murder they deplored, especially in their own home on Christmas Eve.

Much, much worse, it was distressingly clear that the killer had to be someone very close to the household. yet each of the three was prepared to swear that neither of the other two had had the opportunity to kill Elstow.

It looks like it's up to that canny police duo of Inspector Lloyd and Detective Sergeant Judy Hill then, to wander through a maze of self-confessed killers, myriad motives and their own frustrating partnership, to find a murderer with a message...

This is #2 in An Inspector Loyd and Judy Hill Mystery.