Chapter NineIt seemed that his Ma had decided to wait to give Rafferty the benefit of her opinions as to how he should conduct his current investigation until she was able to catch him at home and speak to him in person, it being so much more likely that she would be able to sway him to her point of view in the flesh than over the phone.
Ma was seated with Abra on one of the new settees in their recently updated living room, a mug of tea, unusually for Kitty Rafferty, ignored and skinned over on the small table in front of her.
His Ma, as anticipated, when he was foolish enough to blurt out the possibility, was scandalised that he could even think of suspecting one of the holy Sisters of murder. She even wagged her work-worn forefinger at him as she told him: 'For shame.'
'Why shouldn't
