Portrait of a murderer a Christmas crime story
Every Christmas, the elderly Adrian Gray invites his children to his lonely house at King's Poplars. This quarrelsome pack of six siblings is a swirling maelstrom of unhappy marriages, thwarted dreams, and desperate covetousness. And none of them is fond of their father; indeed, some even wish him dead. By Christmas Day, that wish has been granted--Gray lies cold in his library, struck down by one of his offspring. Police Sergeant Ross Murray, ca...