The brand-new Rafferty and Llewellyn Mystery - Loves, labours, losses and not to mention a spattering of the occult are all part of an education at the prestigious Griffin School, but when a reunion culminates in the death of a high profile former student, DI Joseph Rafferty and his ever erudite partner, Sergeant Dafyd Llewellyn, are called in to unearth the truth behind the school's picturesque facade.

A Little Laughter. A Little Mayhem. A Little MURDER... For Readers who like cozy mysteries, humorous mysteries and police procedurals. Murder victim Adrienne Staveley had a husband, a stepson, and several lovers. And while other men liked her too much, British Detective Joe Rafferty discovered her own menfolk had reasons not to like her very much at all. And as for her female in-laws... Rafferty and his partner, Dafyd Llewelyn, had to sort through Adrienne's tangled love life to find just who had left her murdered -- strangled on her own kitchen floor. Needless to say, the seldom considerate fates had ensured Rafferty had suspects in plenty and motives too numerous to mention. The only thing he and his partner lacked was proof against any one of them. And Joe Rafferty's wedding day was fast-approaching. Would he manage to solve the case and get off on his honeymoon? Or would the fates ensure he had to cancel and get in his bride, Abra's, bad books from the very start? Rafferty & Llewellyn 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 Game of Bones #18 WEBSITE/BLOG: https://geraldineevansbooks.com Newsletter Sign-Up Link: http://eepurl.com/beYGIP KEYWORDS: : British detective series, murder mystery, mystery books, detective books, detective fiction, detective novels, crime, murder, crime fiction, crime books, crime novels, mystery series, Rafferty and Llewellyn, Geraldine Evans, police procedural, police officers, police books, police fiction, police novels. Murder mystery novels, crime, mystery novels, male detectives

'A WONDERFULLY ENTERTAINING READ'. A Little Laughter. A Little Mayhem. a Little MURDER... 'The old crossroads used to run by here,' Sam told Rafferty. 'Legend has it that this was the original Hanging Tree.' When Inspector Rafferty hears that a bound and hooded body has been seen hanging from a tree in Dedman Wood, he dismisses it as a schoolboy hoax. But then the witness turns out to be a respectable local magistrate, who identifies the corpse as Maurice Smith. Once accused of four child rapes, Smith's case became a cause-celebre when it was thrown out on a legal technicality, causng much ill-feeling in the community. And now Smith seems to have disappeared... Then the body turns up again in the woods. Could there be a self-appointed executioner at work, meting out his own form of justice on the legendary Hanging Tree? 'CLEVER AND BELIEVABLE CHARACTERS.' There are eighteen books in the Rafferty & Llewellyn series. BOOKS IN THE RAFFERTY & LLEWELLYN 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 Game of Bones #18 ABOUT THE SERIES: DI Joe Rafferty, working-class lapsed Catholic, is cursed by coming from a family who thinks -- if he must be a copper -- he might at least have the decency to be a bent one. When you add the middle-class, more moral than the Pope intellectual DS Dafyd Llewellyn to the brew the result is murder with plenty of laughs for the reader and plenty of angst for Rafferty. Newsletter Sign-up Link for new releases, bargain buys and free offers. Please copy and paste link into your address bar: eepurl.com/AKjSj WEBSITE/BLOG: https://geraldineevansbooks.com