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Crime Writer
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Geraldine Evans
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Photo by Geraldine Evans
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A RAFFERTY & LLEWELLYN CRIME NOVEL
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SEVERN HOUSE
UK JAN 2007
US APRIL 2007
ISBN 978 0 7278 6479 6
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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
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©Geraldine Evans
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Site created and maintained by Geraldine Evans
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Page updated Thursday 14 June 2007
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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. |
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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. |