Death of a minor character

the long version

Virginia and Felix Freer series #4 *Strangers in life, they were companions in death...* She was a kind, hard-working woman, devoted to doing her best for others. Yet her good deeds had not been repaid: someone had brought her life to a violent, horrifying end. He appeared to be a quiet, gentle person who would not have harmed a fly. Yet when his body was discovered lying in a pool of blood, it was apparent that his last moments were anything but peaceful. The two murders, coming so close together, had rather upset Virginia Freer. She had known both victims, if only casually. She did not know why, but suspicions about the killings gradually began to haunt her--and slowly revealed the links in a bizarre, twisted chain of events that had united the two people in death. But not before murder became a trilogy...