Sarah Kelling is not the typical mystery heroine. She is young, shy, over-protected, and married to a much, much older man, a cousin of hers, for the convenience of the family. That family is old Boston with all that implies. Actually, I'm not sure what that implies - sometimes that "old family" stuff seems incredibly foreign to me.
The murders are also all in the family - and go back over twenty-some years. When the family vault is opened for the interment of old uncle what's his name, there is an undocumented body there. The body is easily identified as that of a bar singer who disappeared many years before. And the web of connections reaches out to all corners of the Kelling family.
We have the charming absurdity of Sarah's extended family of eccentric and egocentric Boston elite juxtaposed with the less charming absurdity of murder for money to keep up appearances.
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