Death duties
By: Janet LaPierre.
Series: A Port Silva mystery
Publisher: John Danial and Co.; John Daniel & Co.
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Palo Alto; McKinleyville, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Women private investigators -- California, Northern -- Fiction.; Suicide victims -- Family relationships -- Fiction.; Port Silva (Calif. : Imaginary place) -- Fiction.; Grandfathers -- Death -- Fiction.; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.; California, Northern -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Hired by Christina Larson, as a deathbed promise to clear her grandfather's name of a pedophilia accusation from thirty years ago, Verity Mackellar and her mother, Patience, aka Patience Smith, Investigations, take the case. The Mackellars are initially reluctant: Patience believes it will reopen old wounds. Verity sees success as unlikely and onetime friend Chris as disagreeable. Then Verity reads the old man's bitter suicide note, "They've left me nothing ... I damn them to hell, whoever they are."