by Geraldine EvansPublish: Jan 11, 2014Series: Rafferty & LlewellynMystery
Book Overview
ʻWell, this was a real find. Geraldine Evans knows how to make a character leap off the pages at you.’ * A Little Laughter. A Little Mayhem. a Little MURDER... * For Readers who like cozy mysteries, humorous mysteries and police procedurals. * Superstitious British Detective Joseph Rafferty is having a bad week – not an unusual occurrence – and he can’t help feeling trouble comes in threes. Also niggling in his mind is the fact that Llewellyn, his posh sergeant, has brought a ‘bargain’ suit from Rafferty’s Ma. Sure to be stolen goods, the suit is bound to drop Rafferty in it when the holier-than-thou Llewellyn wears it on his wedding day -- with the loathed, sharp-eyed, Superintendent Bradley amongst the guests. * Rafferty’s first premonition turns out to be accurate when a company manager is found dead at his desk. The tyrannical Barstaple had known full well that he was hated by most of the office. But did he really deserve to be poisoned? And so horribly. * Rafferty's week goes from bad to worse and worse again. And when you take the ‘bargain’ suit into the equation and Superintendent Bradley's anticipated reaction to this stolen piece of shmutter, the week really has gone to Hell in a handcart. And taken Rafferty with it. But maybe even Hell will be the better destination compared to the possibilities the Superintendent is sure to have in mind. * ʻAn ingeniously constructed plot, deft dialogue, well-drawn characters, and a few humorous touches, make this an enjoyably intriguing read.’ * RAFFERTY & LLEWELLYN BRITISH MYSTERY SERIES Dead Before Morning #1 Down Among the Dead Men #2 Death Line #3 The Hanging Tree #4 Absolute Poison #5 Dying For You #6 Bad Blood #7 Love Lies Bleeding #8 Blood on the Bones #9 A Thrust to the Vitals #10 Death Dues #11 All the Lonely People #12 Death Dance #13 Deadly Reunion #14 Kith and Kill #15 Asking For It #16 The Spanish Connection #17 * WEBSITE/BLOG: http://geraldineevansbooks.wordpress.com NEWSLETTER SIGN-LINK: http://eepurl.com/AKjSj
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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