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Past Tense by Catherine Aird (view source)
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Jan Wakefield was surprised to find herself arranging the refreshments for mourners after a funeral, not least because she had never met the deceased and was unaware that her husband was the next of kin. He was working in South America and not expected home for some time. Josephine Short has had obviously been a feisty character though. Despite being unmarried she had had a child (at a time when this would have been frowned upon) and amassed a considerable fortune. Her grandson Joe was flying home from Lasserta for the funeral.
Detectives Sloan and Crosby weren't interested in the death of Miss Short, but they were called in when there was a burglary at the nursing home where she died. Nothing seemed to have been stolen but a vase was broken in her room. Sloan wasn't to have much time to concentrate on the case as the body of a young woman was pulled from the river. Was there any connection with the break in – and exactly what was Jan's husband doing on the night the young woman died?