Geraldine Evans, Crime Novelist

Thank you for visiting my website. You're very welcome.

If you're new here, my name's Geraldine Evans and I'm the British author of two

humorous crime series: the fIfteen-strong Rafferty & Llewellyn and the two-strong

Casey & Catt series. I hope you enjoy my site. You'll find extracts to all my books here.

If you'd like to try one of my novels - one from my humorous Rafferty series, for instance

- but baulk at paying for a hardback, you can try them more cheaply, as I've started to put some

of my books out as ebooks.

If you're an aspiring writer, go to my WRITERS' ADVICE PAGE. You'll find a lot of stuff

there that might help you in your ambition.

I've just recorded a podcast radio interview with the delightful Kghia Gherardi and Simeon Beresford for their book programme, Off the Shelf. It's a fairly extensive interview and covers my embrace of epublishing as well as what I'm doing now and planning for the future. why not click the link and tune in?

Here's the link for the interview I just did with Jack Everett at Acclaimed Books

http://www.acclaimedbooks.com/interviews.php

'Distinctly pleasurable. A highly satisfying read, one which

Agatha Christie herself would have been proud of. Highly

recommended to all lovers of the mystery genre.’

AUTHOR JACK EVERETT

‘This is another excellent entry in this marvellous

series. The characters spring off the page. The

dialogue is sparkling, great interplay between the two

detectives, and the mystery is intriguing to the end.

EUROCRIME ON MY LATEST, DEADLY REUNION

‘Great book! A wonderfully entertaining read. All the clues are there, set out honestly and fairly, yet the identity of the killer still comes as a surprise. I got one of those "of course - I should have known!" moments at the denouement. Crime writing at its best.’

WRITER JAMES GRACIE ON DEATH LINE

‘Wonderful series. Fantastic Books. I highly

recommend them. They have terrific characters

and interesting plots.

AUTHOR GAIL FARRELLY

Just back from a long work stint abroad followed by a short holiday, Virginia Casey is unprepared for the whirlwind that is about to engulf her.

Her younger sister has just died. There is something strange about her death, but it is only after the post mortem that Ginnie finds out her sister has aborted a baby. What comes next has her engulfed in the infertility industry and organized crime with guilt a constant traveller as she tries to get to the bottom of her sister’s lonely death.

Infertility expert Dr Sam French insists he wants to help her find out the truth of what happened to Karen, so why is it that he seems to be hindering her?

A new millennium suspense novel set in the infertility industry, The Egg Factory shows what happens when desperation turns deadly.

The matriarch of a family of fashion designers. Sophia Egerton, had just celebrated her ninetieth birthday when she is murdered. Was it, Rafferty wondered, that one of her family had thought she had lived too long? Because rather than a locked room, this is a 'locked house' mystery with a limited cast of suspects.

Rafferty's family have a celebration of their own, a celebration of Rafferty's father's life and death - like Shakespeare, these events occurred on the same day separated by seventy years. But what to buy Ma as a gift to mark the occasion? Rafferty sets out to convince his siblings that buying from the ‘man in the pub’ is not the best idea. But none of them had remembered that Ma has a mind of her own...

Increasingly conscious of his lonely state, Detective Inspector Joe Rafferty signed up with the Made in Heaven dating agency, using an assumed name so his Ma and his colleagues wouldn’t find out. What he hadn’t bargained on was that the first two women with whom he struck up a rapport should wind up murdered – and with himself, or rather his alter ego Nigel Blythe, in the frame for the crime.

Will the anonymity of the alias be enough to carry him through the investigation? And will the extra time he’s bought prove sufficient to find the women’s real killer before the finger of suspicions is pointed at him?

STARRED REVIEW FROM KIRKUS

‘Evans brings wit and insight to this tale of looking for love in all the wrong places.’

EUROCRIME

‘It’s bad enough being suspected of a double murder, worse still when it’s your alter ego being pursued and it’s the pits when you are the policeman in charge of supposedly catching yourself. I thoroughly enjoyed Dying For You, the sixth in the series, A lot of humour is injected in Rafferty’s narrative. He’s got himself in an impossible situation and one wonders what can go wrong next. I savoured this book and am keen to read the rest in the series asap.’

Detective Inspector Joe Rafferty is barely back from his honeymoon before he has two unpleasant surprises. Not only has he another murder investigation - a poisoning, courtesy of a school reunion, he also has four new lodgers, courtesy of his Ma, Kitty Rafferty.

Ma is organising her own reunion and since getting on the internet, the number of Rafferty and Kelly family attendees has grown, like Topsy. In his murder investigation, Rafferty has to go back in time to learn of all the likely motives of the victim's fellow reunees. But it is only when he is reconciled to his unwanted lodgers, that Rafferty finds the answers to his most important questions.

‘This is another excellent entry in this marvellous series. The characters spring off the page. The dialogue is sparkling, great interplay between the two detectives, and the mystery is intriguing to the end.'

EUROCRIME ON DEADLY REUNION

'This well-constructed procedural effectively blends humorous details

of Rafferty’s family life into an engaging case in a solid series appealing

to both procedural and cozy fans.'

BOOKLIST ON DEADLY REUNION