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Rafferty and Llewellyn Police Procedural Series #15
Kith and Kill
Librarian note: alternate-cover edition of B005R3MK80.
Sophia Egerton, matriarch of a family of fashion designers, is murdered on the same day she celebrates her ninetieth birthday. DI Joe Rafferty has to wonder if one of her family thought she had lived too long,because most of the suspects were there when she died and just happen to be the wealthy Sophia's ever-loving relatives.
Rafferty and his family have a celebration of their own. But what to buy Ma as a gift to mark the occasion? Rafferty's attempts to persuade his numerous & bolshie siblings that buying a gift from a 'man in the pub' is not a good idea, not least from his police career point of view, involves him in some serious — and cripplingly expensive —bribery and corruption.
If only he'd remembered that his Ma had a mind of her own he might have saved himself both grief and cash.
His investigation proceeds on its un-merry way, thwarted not only by his own mind’s obsession with the Rafferty-family propensity for dodgy purchases, and the victim’s family, but also by his own parish priest.
Fr Roberto Kelly, so frequently Rafferty’s bête-noire, has turned up to offer succour to one of his lady parishioners. But it is only by getting the contrarily-wilful priest on-side that Rafferty knows he will ever get a conviction.
Sophia Egerton, matriarch of a family of fashion designers, is murdered on the same day she celebrates her ninetieth birthday. DI Joe Rafferty has to wonder if one of her family thought she had lived too long,because most of the suspects were there when she died and just happen to be the wealthy Sophia's ever-loving relatives.
Rafferty and his family have a celebration of their own. But what to buy Ma as a gift to mark the occasion? Rafferty's attempts to persuade his numerous & bolshie siblings that buying a gift from a 'man in the pub' is not a good idea, not least from his police career point of view, involves him in some serious — and cripplingly expensive —bribery and corruption.
If only he'd remembered that his Ma had a mind of her own he might have saved himself both grief and cash.
His investigation proceeds on its un-merry way, thwarted not only by his own mind’s obsession with the Rafferty-family propensity for dodgy purchases, and the victim’s family, but also by his own parish priest.
Fr Roberto Kelly, so frequently Rafferty’s bête-noire, has turned up to offer succour to one of his lady parishioners. But it is only by getting the contrarily-wilful priest on-side that Rafferty knows he will ever get a conviction.
- GenresMystery
225 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 13, 2011
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About the author
Geraldine Evans
50 books100 followersaka 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.
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.
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April 14, 2020
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?
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?
July 6, 2016
Another mystery in this entertaining series, in which an elderly lady dies quietly but unnaturally in bed.
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