Kith and Kill

Rafferty and Llewellyn Police Procedural Series #15

by Geraldine Evans

This tells the story of the murder of the matriarch of a family of fashion designers. Sophia Egerton had just celebrated her ninetieth birthday. Was it, Rafferty wondered, that one of her family had thought she had lived too long? Because rather than a locked room, this is a 'locked house' mystery with a limited cast of suspects. Almost all of them her ever loving family.

Rafferty's family has a celebration of their own, a celebration of Rafferty's father's life and death - like Shakespeare, these events occurred on the same day separated by seventy years. But what to buy Ma as a gift to mark the occasion? Rafferty sets out to convince his siblings that his gift idea is the best. But none of them had remembered that Ma has a mind of her own...

Genres: Mystery

225 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 13, 2011

About the author

aka Geraldine Hartnett.

I'm a British author and live in Norfolk, England. I write mystery/detective novels and have two series on the go: Rafferty & Llewellyn and Casey & Catt.

Series:

* Rafferty and Llewellyn Mystery
* Casey and Catt Mystery

I also write historical novels, of which my first is Reluctant Queen: The Story of Mary Rose Tudor, the Defiant Little Sister of Infamous English king, Henry VIII.

Reviews

[Saundra Wright · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another winner from Geraldine Evans! Her complex plots keep you guessing while her characters keep readers devoted.

Not quite a closed room mystery, but at least a locked house, leaves Rafferty and Llewellyn with few suspects other than the family. Sophia Egerton reluctantly had a ninetieth birthday celebration with her family. She could have done without the fanfare, but her grandchildren insisted. When she is found the next morning suffocated to death in her bed, it seems pretty clear than someone in the family had something other than a party planned. There is a couple, maid and grounds man, who live on the property. However only the family slept in the locked house.

One would think with such a limited supply of suspects, they could be checked off one by one. But Sophia wasn’t easy to please, and it seems nearly every member of the family had reason to wish for their inheritance sooner rather than later.

Can Rafferty and Llewellyn smoke out this devious killer?

[Jack · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another mystery in this entertaining series, in which an elderly lady dies quietly but unnaturally in bed.