Geraldine Evans’ first mystery is also the debut of marriage-phobic Detective Inspector Joseph Rafferty and his well-educated, lonely subordinate, Sergeant Llewellyn, who are called to the grounds of a posh private psychiatric hospital to survey the naked body of a young woman with her face bashed in. Who coshed her, and why? Dead Before Morning – Just $2.99 on Kindle!
Here’s the set-up for Geraldine Evans’ Dead Before Morning:
A young woman is murdered in a mental institution. Detective Rafferty and Sergant Llewellyn provide “murder mystery humor” as a mismatched pair who must work together for the first time to sort out the murder and build a partnership.
From Library Journal:
This British author’s mystery debut introduces Detective Joseph Rafferty, newly promoted, and his sidekick, the lugubrious and sententious Sergeant Llewellyn. Their first big case together, the mutilation murder of a young woman in an expensive mental hospital, tests both their ability and their compatibility: they risk unpleasant retribution from the clinic’s ambitious, womanizing owner as well as scrutiny by press and superiors. Solid police procedure set in an isolated area but fraught with conflict. For most collections.–Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Death Line, the latest in the Rafferty & Llewellyn series, released last month is now available in the Kindle Store here.
From the author:
I’ve had eighteen novels published – sixteen crime, one historical and one romance. I’ve been plucked from slush piles twice: once by Robert Hale, and once by Macmillan, who took Dead Before Morning, my very first mystery novel, and published it in 1993. They sold it in turn to St Martin’s Press in the US and thence on to Worldwide for softcover publication. Not bad for a writer who had endured six long years of rejections for her first six novels.
My eighteenth novel, Deadly Reunion, came out in the UK in February 2011, it’ll be out on 1st June in the States.
(Editor’s note: Deadly Reunion is available only in hardback on Amazon for now. Evans has 18 books on Amazon, but only 3 so far in the Kindle Store. On her web site she writers: “I am starting to put some of my books out as ebooks.” Not clear at this time is whether she will put all of them out as ebooks.–TD)
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