The Spanish Connection Rafferty Llewellyn British Mysteries 17

​ʻThis series gets better and better.' A nine-month pregnant wife, a murder victim found on an archaeological dig, minus his fingers, and very limited time, meant that Joe Rafferty wasn't a happy bunny. Superintendent Bradley, media darling and determined to stay that way, only added to Rafferty's stress. * They discovered that their murder victim was small-time crook and drug dealer. He had vanished from Spain, where he worked for Charlie Carver, a Mr Big of the Costa del Crime. But Rafferty's visit to Spain was cut short when to Abra went into labour. And despite his promises that he'd be there at his child's birth, wouldn't you know the French air traffic controllers had staged their usual summer strike. * Superintendent Bradley, with the heady thought of promotion filling his mind, demanded he get Charlie Carver, who'd be a big feather in his cap with the brass. But Rafferty was convinced Carver wasn't the murderer. Becoming a daddy for the first was a big thing for Rafferty, in more ways than one. But he didn't know how he was to satisfy Abra that he was pulling his weight with the baby and at the same time find the killer. * His first marriage had held similar demands, but he couldn't risk what he had with Abra, yet at the same time, he was determined to find the killer, whatever the cost. * RAFFERTY & LLEWELLYN BRITISH 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 Game of Bones #18 WEBSITE/BLOG: https://geraldineevansbooks.com NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP: http://eepurl.com/beYGIP

'A WONDERFULLY ENTERTAINING READ'. A Little Laughter. A Little Mayhem. a Little MURDER... 'The old crossroads used to run by here,' Sam told Rafferty. 'Legend has it that this was the original Hanging Tree.' When Inspector Rafferty hears that a bound and hooded body has been seen hanging from a tree in Dedman Wood, he dismisses it as a schoolboy hoax. But then the witness turns out to be a respectable local magistrate, who identifies the corpse as Maurice Smith. Once accused of four child rapes, Smith's case became a cause-celebre when it was thrown out on a legal technicality, causng much ill-feeling in the community. And now Smith seems to have disappeared... Then the body turns up again in the woods. Could there be a self-appointed executioner at work, meting out his own form of justice on the legendary Hanging Tree? 'CLEVER AND BELIEVABLE CHARACTERS.' There are eighteen books in the Rafferty & Llewellyn series. BOOKS IN THE RAFFERTY & LLEWELLYN 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 Game of Bones #18 ABOUT THE SERIES: DI Joe Rafferty, working-class lapsed Catholic, is cursed by coming from a family who thinks -- if he must be a copper -- he might at least have the decency to be a bent one. When you add the middle-class, more moral than the Pope intellectual DS Dafyd Llewellyn to the brew the result is murder with plenty of laughs for the reader and plenty of angst for Rafferty. Newsletter Sign-up Link for new releases, bargain buys and free offers. Please copy and paste link into your address bar: eepurl.com/AKjSj WEBSITE/BLOG: https://geraldineevansbooks.com