Old Bones

I sat down on one of the couches. 'So, Stepfather, ' I said, 'Who did you kill?' 'He didn't kill anyone!' Mother snapped. 'Don't be silly!' I sighed. 'Okay. So who didn't you kill?' Back briefly to Italy from his self-imposed exile in Athens, Marcus Corvinus is not a happy bunny; particularly since he and his wife Perilla are sharing their holiday with Corvinus's mother and antiquities- obsessed stepfather Helvius Priscus. Then, when Priscus is caught standing over the corpse of one of the ...