Dying For You (28 page)

Authors: Geraldine Evans

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‘Thank God. You've brought more booze,’ she said. ‘Not only a plentiful supply of fags but, decent-sized bottles, too. I could kiss you.’

‘I don't think your cousin would approve on such a short acquaintance.’

‘Dafyd can be such a stuff-pot,’ she agreed before she turned on her heel. ‘Hang onto that.’ She handed him her burning cigarette with the instruction, ‘Stay there. I'll get us some glasses.’ She was back in moments. She sat down on the front step and patted the place beside her. ‘Take a pew.’

‘Shouldn't we go in?’ Rafferty asked.

‘God, no. Davy's still fussing over the wine. The red's too cold apparently and the white's too warm. Still not allowed to drink either of them.’ She looked sideways at him. ‘Hope you're not so fussy?’

Rafferty shook his head. ‘All I require of wine is that it's wet and makes me maudlin’.’

‘Me, too. Besides, you don't imagine Davy allows smoking indoors?’

Rafferty was only too well acquainted with the fact.

‘Why do you think I came out here?’ She made as if to rise. ‘Do you need a corkscrew?’

‘No. I always buy screw-tops. Saves time.’

‘Ditto. So much easier.’ She settled back on the doorstep, her shoulder pressed companionably against his and echoed his previous words. ‘You sound like a man after my own heart.’

And as he loosened the screw top, Rafferty believed that Llewellyn might just be right. Again. After his recent tragic brush with romance, he had made the firm decision to put thoughts of improving his love-life on hold. But now, with his typical swift Libran shift from one viewpoint to its opposite, he realized his decision had been weak. Didn't they say you should get back on a horse immediately after a fall?

Not that Abra bore any resemblance to a horse; not, he amended, if you discounted her hair, which she wore in a long, shining plait that reached halfway down her back, or her legs, which were long and slender.

He poured the wine and lit her second cigarette. ‘Dafyd tells me your name means ‘Mother of Multitudes’,’ he told her. ‘Will you be do you think?’

‘Not bloody likely.’

Rafferty smiled and leaned back happily against her shoulder. For, after all, as he told himself happily, his Ma didn't need to know that.

About the Author

Geraldine Evans
has been writing since her twenties, but never finished anything. It was only hitting the milestone age of thirty that concentrated her mind. She then wrote a book a year for six years, only the last of which (
Land of Dreams
), was published. As well as her popular Rafferty & Llewellyn mystery series, she has a second mystery series, Casey & Catt and has also had published an historical novel, a romance and articles on a variety of subjects, including, Historical Biography, Writing, Astrology, Palmistry and other New Age subjects. She has also written a dramatization of
Dead Before Morning
, the first book in her Rafferty series.

She is a Londoner, but now lives in Norfolk England where she moved, with her husband George, in 2000.

Dying For You
is the sixth in her 15-strong humorous Rafferty & Llewellyn mystery series. She is currently working on the next in the series. She also hopes to put out a seventh ebook later in 2011.

You can learn more about Geraldine Evans and her novels at
http://www.geraldineevans.com

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DEAD BEFORE MORNING

A Rafferty and Llewellyn mystery novel

By Geraldine Evans

Available from Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Android, iPad, iPhone, iBookstore, etc.

First in the fifteen-strong Rafferty & Llewellyn crime series.

Detective Inspector Joseph Rafferty is investigating his first murder since his promotion. What a shame the victim is a girl with no name and no face, found in a place she had no business being – a private psychiatric hospital. With everyone denying knowing anything about the victim, Rafferty has his work cut out, so he could do without his Ma setting him another little problem: that of getting his cousin ‘Jailhouse Jack’ out of the cells. Although he has no shortage of suspects, proof is not so plentiful. It is only when he remembers his forgotten promise to get his cousin out of the cells that Rafferty gets the first glimmer that leads to the solution to the case.

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DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN

A Rafferty and Llewellyn mystery novel

By Geraldine Evans

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Second novel in the fifteen-strong Rafferty & Llewellyn crime series.

When beautiful Barbara Longman is found dead in a meadow, uprooted wild flowers strewn about her and, in her hand, a single marigold, Inspector Joe Rafferty at first believes the murder may be the work of the serial killer over the county border in Suffolk. But then he meets the victim's family – and, after liaising with the Suffolk CID, he rapidly comes to believe that the killing is the work of a copycat… one much closer to home, someone among the descendants of the long-dead wealthy family patriarch, Maximillian Shore. Everyone, it seems, had a motive: Henry the grieving widower; the victim's brother-in-law, Charles Shore, the ruthless tycoon; Henry's first wife, the Bohemian Anne, who has lost the custody of Maxie, her teenage son, to the saintly Barbara. Even the long-dead patriarch, Maximillian Shore, seems, to Rafferty, to have some involvement in the murder, though how, or why, Rafferty doesn't understand until he finally grasps the truth behind the reasons for the killing. A truth sad and dreadful and which had been evident from the start, if only he had had the eyes to see.

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DEATH LINE

A Rafferty and Llewellyn mystery novel

By Geraldine Evans

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Third novel in the fifteen-strong Rafferty and Llewellyn mystery series

Jasper Moon, internationally renowned ‘Seer to the Stars’, had signally failed to foresee his own future. He is found dead on his consulting-room floor, his skull crushed with a crystal ball and, all, around him, his office in chaos.

Meanwhile, Ma Rafferty does some star-gazing of her own and is sure she can predict Detective Inspector Joe Rafferty's future – by the simple expedient of organizing it herself. She is still engaged on her crusade to get Rafferty married off to a good Catholic girl with child-bearing hips. But Rafferty has a cunning plan to sabotage her machinations. Only trouble is, he needs Sergeant Llewellyn's cooperation and he isn't sure he's going to get it.

During their murder investigations, Inspector Rafferty and Sergeant Llewellyn discover a highly incriminating video concealed in Moon's flat, a video which, if made public, could wreck more than one life. Was the famous astrologer really a vicious sexual predator? Gradually, connections begin to emerge between Moon and others in the small Essex town of Elmhurst. But how is Rafferty to solve the case when all of his suspects have seemingly unbreakable alibis?

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