Down Among the Dead Men
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Publisher Description
RAFFERTY & LLEWELLYN BRITISH MYSTERY SERIES #2
'I have fallen in love with her slow-paced but interesting books.'
For those who like mysteries, with Detectives who have a sense of humour.
When beautiful Barbara Longman is found murdered in a meadow, uprooted wildflowers strewn about her, and, in her hand, a single marigold, British Detective Joe Rafferty at first believes the murder may be the work of the serial killer over the county border in Suffolk.
But then he meets the victim's family—and after liaising with the Suffolk police, he rapidly comes to believe that the mystery killing is the work of a copycat…one much closer to home; someone among the descendants of the long-dead family patriarch, Maximillian Shore.
Everyone, it seems, had a motive: Henry the grieving widower; the victim's brother-in-law, Charles Shore the ruthless tycoon; Henry's first wife the Bohemian Anne, who has lost the custody of her teenage son, to the saintly Barbara.
Even the long-dead patriarch, Maximillian Shore, seems, to Rafferty, to have some involvement in the murder, though how, or why, Rafferty doesn't understand until he finally grasps the truth behind the reasons for the killing. A truth sad and dreadful and which had been evident from the start, if only he had had the eyes to see.
'Evans' humour seriously added to my enjoyment of her book. This, her first, as well as the rest in the series, are well written, with standout central characters and clever plots.' AUNT AGATHA'S BOOKSHOP, ANN ARBOUR, USA
'I love this series. Great cozy mysteries and Rafferty and Llewellyn are great characters.' READER REVIEWER
'I'm really enjoying the author's subtle wit and the overall quality of the writing.' READER REVIEWER
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
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Following Dead Before Morning, the second Inspector Rafferty/Sergeant Llewellyn mystery successfully brings the English duo together again when a woman is found suffocated in an Essex field. Barbara Longman, tireless worker for ecological causes and a good mother, is not your average murder victim. So, at first, Rafferty links her death to unsolved serial killings in a neighboring district. But then clues begin to point towards one of her family-or at least someone with intimate details about her personal life. Rafferty, nicknamed the British Columbo, and his more educated sidekick Llewellyn closely question the prominent family with which Longman lived. Interspersed with Rafferty's keen musings and tentative deductions about the case is the growing connection between him and his sergeant as Llewellyn begins to get serious about Rafferty's cousin, whom he is dating.
