Mervin and the team investigate the murder of a localnewspaper's notorious agony aunt, poisoned the morning afterher retirement party while reading her final advice column. Thepaperboy is swiftly ruled out, but the police are left stumpedwhen he insists he delivered the stack of papers at random.Nobody else in the neighbourhood was taken ill, so how couldthe killer have ensured the victim would pick up the onlypoisoned copy?Meanwhile, Mervin resists the counsellingsessions Selwyn has imposed after the case in Antigua. And ashe grapples with his feelings towards his brother, Mervin getsa rude awakening from an unexpected figure. Is blood reallythicker than water?
