A murder victim with no face. A media calling for answers. And a detective with a family not averse to a little gentle law-bending.
Newly-promoted British Detective Joe Rafferty and his partner, Sergeant Dafyd Llewellyn in a murder mystery involving the killing of a young woman bludgeoned beyond recognition, with no ID and found in a secure place to which she supposedly had no admission. Who is she? How has she gained access? And who was responsible for her murder?
DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN #2
A murder victim with no enemies. A dead patriarch. And a detective who’s struggling.
British Detectives Joe Rafferty and his partner, Dafyd Llewellyn, in their second murder mystery investigation, set out to discover who killed Barbara Longman, a woman with no known enemies. But it soon becomes apparent that the murder has been committed by someone who must have known the victim very well.
DEATH LINE #3
A murdered seer who failed to predict his own future. A partner who refuses to see the murder as an inside job. And a Detective who’s coming up empty.
Third novel in the Rafferty & Llewellyn mystery series, Death Line sees the detective duo trying to solve the murder with his own crystal ball, of the famed 'seer', Jasper Moon. Gradually it becomes clear that Jasper Moon was a man of many parts, not all of them appeared very savoury.
THE HANGING TREE #4
A disappearing murder victim no one would miss. A witness destined to haunt him. And a Detective who felt ambivalent about getting a conviction.
The detective pair investigate the murder mystery of the vanishing hanged man. But when the hanged man turns up in Dedman Woods for a second time, the British detectives are able to confirm that he is a man many had reason to hate. Because Maurice Smith, charged years earlier with four child rapes, had escaped on a legal technicality. Was someone acting as the public executioner, dealing out their own form of justice on the legendary Hanging Tree?
If you like the Detective Bill Slider novels, the Dalziel and Pascoe series, and Stephanie Plum, the Rafferty 17-strong series brings the wit, wisdom and willingness to bend the law with the best of them.
Buy this book to learn about Joe Rafferty, his ne’er-do-well family, and po-faced partner.
Books in the Rafferty & Llewellyn British Mystery series 17-STRONG MYSTERY SERIES
The Spanish Connection #17 Asking For It #16 Kith and Kill #15 Deadly Reunion #14 Death Dance #13 All the Lonely People #12 Death Dues #11 A Thrust to the Vitals #10 Blood on the Bones #9 Love Lies Bleeding #8 Bad Blood #7 Dying For You #6 Absolute Poison #5 The Hanging Tree #4 Death Line #3 Down Among the Dead Men #2 Dead Before Morning #1
BIOGRAPHY Geraldine Evans is a British novelist. After eighteen years traditionally-published (Macmillan, St Martin's Press, Hale, Severn House, Isis (audio), she turned Indie in 2010, and thinks it's GREAT to have control of her life's work at last. She is the author of the 17-strong Rafferty & Llewellyn mystery series and The Casey & Catt series, as well as other works. Her latest novel (pub: 2016) is The Spanish Connection #17 Rafferty & Llewellyn series.
She is a member of The Crime Writing Association and Mystery People.
Her mysteries tend to the Cozy end of the spectrum, and although they're not Cozies at all in the strictest sense, as her main character is Detective Inspector Joe Rafferty, rather than a cat, dog or budgerigar, she does have a humorous element with Rafferty's ne'er-do-well family. Some of them are of the opinion - that if he must be a copper - he might at least have the decency to be a bent one.
Her working life, before she went full-time as an author, was so varied that she was bound to become a writer, sooner or later! It includes stints in a psychiatric hospital, a public library, running their own vehicle repair workshop with her mechanic husband, an au pair, behind bars, in factories, for the legal world, the energy world and the insurance world as an office temp. She's helped out in the Constituency Office of her local Member of Parliament and looked after other people's dogs while their owners took a holiday.
She's devoured mysteries and history for years. Agatha Christie, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles (love, love love her books), Reginald Hill, P D James, Ruth Rendell, Janet Evanovich, and countless others, she must have read thousands of them, but she still comes back for more. She loves historical fact and fiction, her favourite historical fiction author is Sharon Penman, and her favourite mystery fiction is, of course, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles.
Her other interests included photography, getting God-like in the greenhouse, learning keyboards and painting amateur portraits of unwilling victims, but, apart from gardening, they've all had to be abandoned since the stroke in 2015. She might now be a one-handed typist, but she can still write books! She's written two since the stroke (Asking For It and The Spanish Connection), and is now getting on well with her eighteenth Rafferty novel (Game of Bones).
She spent most of her life in London (UK), where she was born and brought up, the youngest of four children born to Irish parents (Mum-Dublin, Dad-Limerick), but moved to a market town in Norfolk (UK) in 2000, with her late husband, George.
She has been full-time since 2011, and loves it!
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