Blood on the Bones (Rafferty and Llewellyn Series #9)

by Geraldine Evans

Overview

'Clever plotting and polished prose make for a cracking good British police procedural.' B00KLIST

A Little Laughter. A Little Mayhem. A Little MURDER...

'Crackling Crime Mystery with Depth and Laughs.’ READER REVIEWER

Lapsed Catholic British Detective Joe Rafferty is dismayed that his latest murder investigation should centre around the local RC Convent, where a dead (male) body has been discovered in a shallow grave.

The nuns' order is an enclosed, contemplative one, and access to their house and grounds, with its surrounding 8-foot-high walls, far from simple. But Rafferty, unlike his Sergeant, Dafyd Llewellyn, who isn't prejudiced by a rigid Catholic schooling, finds it easy as sin to believe that this is an inside job, and that the religious are as capable of murder as other frail mortals.

As if to punish him for his blasphemy, the spiteful fates take the opportunity to add some mischief sure to cause Rafferty palpitations. Because amongst his list of 'holy' suspects is his Parish priest and personal bête-noire, Father Roberto Kelly. Turns out the determinedly soul-saving, uber-hypocritical, 'greatest sinner in the parish', is the nuns' confessor.

As if all that's not enough for Detective Rafferty to cope with, he is also beset by personal problems of a blackmailing nature, stemming from one of his previous investigations that has come back to haunt him…

Rafferty has to dig deep into the past and the mores of an earlier generation to find the killer, and into his own recent past to identify his blackmailer. If only the latter didn't involve considering his sins, which was too akin to the youthful Rafferty's experiences in the Confessional Box for comfort.

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RAFFERTY & LLEWELLYN MYSTERY 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

’A fun read.’

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Product Details

BN ID:	2940153401072
Publisher:	Geraldine Evans
Publication date:	01/31/2015
Series:	Rafferty and Llewellyn Series , #9
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	332 KB

About the Author

A Little Laughter. A Little Mayhem. A Little MURDER...

British mystery author Geraldine Evans is a traditionally published author (Macmillan, St Martin's Press, Hale, Severn House) who turned indie in 2010.

Her mysteries include the soon-to-be 18-strong Rafferty & Llewellyn series of British Mysteries, whose protagonist, DI Joe Rafferty, comes from a family who think -- if he must be a copper -- he might at least have the decency to be a bent one.

Her second is the 2-strong Casey & Catt British Mysteries, with protagonist DCI 'Will' Casey, whose drugged-up 'the Sixties never died', hippie parents, also pose the occasional little difficulty.

She has also published The Egg Factory, a standalone mystery/thriller set in the infertility industry, Reluctant Queen, a biographical historical, about the little sister of Henry VIII, romance (under the pseudonym of Maria Meredith), and non-fiction (some under the pseudonym of Genniffer Dooley-Hart).

Geraldine is a Londoner, who moved to a Norfolk (UK) market town in 2000.

Her interests include photography, getting to grips with photo manipulation software, learning keyboards and painting portraits with a good likeness, but little else to recommend them.

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Editorial Reviews

Expect the unexpected when the discovery of a body sends lapsed-Catholic Joe Rafferty (Love Lies Bleeding, 2005, etc.) into the local convent. Daily life at Elmhurst's convent-actually a monastery, though it's currently in use by a cloistered order of Carmelite nuns-revolves around prayer, contemplation and hard work. So although DI Rafferty's genuflecting days are over, much to the dismay of his ma, he promises the Prioress, Mother Catherine, to disrupt the nuns' daily activities as little as possible as he investigates the murder of the unidentified man Sister Rita discovered in a shallow grave on her way to her afternoon spiritual reading. But instead of a holy hush, he finds the sisters atwitter with excitement at having a pack of "brawny policemen" mucking about the shrubbery. Rafferty even gets to sample some of the convent's apple wine with Sisters Rita and Perpetua. He does need to poke around some, since novice Sister Cecile and postulant Teresa Tattersall both have dodgy boyfriends in their past. He also has pointed questions for Father Roberto Kelly, the convent's chaplain, and Dr. Peterson, who provides medical care. But increasingly, he finds the convent a haven whose peace and joy distract him from his untidy life-especially the threat of exposure of his role in the Made in Heaven murders (Dying for You, 2004). Evans's ear for just the right word more than makes up for her lackadaisical plotting.

Kirkus Reviews