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BLOOD ON THE BONES 9th in my Rafferty & Llewellyn crime series
A RAFFERTY & LLEWELLYN CRIME NOVEL
SEVERN HOUSE
UK JAN 2007
US APRIL 2007
ISBN 978 0 7278 6479 6
A THRUST TO THE VITALS
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'Sits squarely in the Rafferty-Llewellyn tradition of solid, straightforward detection
mingled with family mayhem..'
Kirkus Reviews on A Thrust to the Vitals
LOVE LIES BLEEDING 8th in my Rafferty & Llewellyn crime series
DYING FOR YOU 6th in my Rafferty and Llewellyn crime series
ABSOLUTE POISON 5th book in my Rafferty & Llewellyn crime series
THE HANGING TREE 4th book in my Rafferty & Llewellyn crime series
DEATH LINE 3rd book in my Rafferty & Llewellyn crime series
DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN 2nd book in my Rafferty & Llewellyn crime series
DEAD BEFORE MORNING 1st book in my Rafferty & Llewellyn crime series
BAD BLOOD 7th in my Rafferty & Llewellyn crime series
UP IN FLAMES 1st in my Casey & Catt crime series
RELUCTANT QUEEN 1st Historical. About Henry VIII's Little Sister
LAND OF DREAMS A Romance. My first published novel
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Sir Rufus's civic honours had been awarded with all the dignity and pomp even his self-
regard could desire. He had also received another, unanticipated honour: the attentions
of a murderer who, unlike our own dear Queen with her gentle shoulder-tapping sword,
had thrust a sharpened carpenter's quarter-inch wood chisel deeply and far from gently
through Seward's back and into his heart.

A clammy hand seemed to clutch Rafferty's own heart. It gave it such a sharp squeeze
that the organ paused in its beat for a few worrying seconds, before it resumed its thud,
thud, thud again, but on its recommencement, it beat with a speed that was positively
breathtaking.

As a carpenter, Mickey worked with such chisels. They were the daily tools of his trade.
He also had reasons - several of them - to hate Rufus Seward. If Rafferty had been any
other copper, after his brother's admission that he had been in Seward's suite on the
evening of his murder, he would have concluded Mickey had means, motive and
opportunity in plenty and slap the cuffs on him.
Welcome to my official website.

My name's Geraldine Evans, and I'm a
British crime writer.

If you prefer a few laughs to go along with
the bodies in your mystery fiction, you
may well enjoy my humorous Rafferty &
Llewellyn crime series. In my latest,
A Thrust to the Vitals (Severn Jan 2007),
Rafferty finds himself torn between
protecting his family and finding the real
killer of Sir Rufus Seward. This task is not
made any easier when Rafferty's brother,
Mickey, known to have reason to hate the
dead man, had been at the scene and
had the means, motive and opportunity to
murder him.