The Hanging Tree #4
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‘The original crossroads used to run by here,’ Sam told Rafferty. ‘Legend has it that this was the old Hanging Tree.’
When Inspector Rafferty first hears the report that a bound and hooded body has been seen hanging from a tree in Dedman Wood, he dismisses it as a schoolboy hoax, especially when police at the scene find nothing out of the ordinary.
But his anxiety rises sharply when the witness turns out to be a respectable local magistrate, who identifies the corpse as Maurice Smith, a man once accused of four child rapes. Thrown out on a legal technicality, Smith’s case had become a cause-célèbre which had generated much ill-feeling within the community.
Rafferty and Sergeant Llewellyn visit Smith’s home — to discover he has mysteriously disappeared. And in his flat they find a threatening letter, and fresh bloodstains…
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?
Absolute Poison #5
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Detective Inspector Joseph Rafferty is having a bad week–two pensioner suicides already and he can’t help feeling trouble comes in threes. Also niggling in his mind is the fact that Llewellyn, his posh sergeant, has bought a ‘bargain’ suit from Rafferty’s mother. Sure to be stolen goods, the suit is bound to drop Rafferty in it when the holier-than-thou Llewellyn wears it on his wedding day, with the promise of a gimlet-eyed Superintendent Bradley in attendance.
Rafferty’s first premonition turns out to be accurate when a company manager is found dead at his desk. The tyrannical Barstaple had known full well that he was hated by most of the office. But did he really deserve to be poisoned? And so horribly.
Rafferty thinks his week has been trying enough. But then someone else is poisoned and from bad to worse becomes worse again. And when you take the ‘bargain’ suit into the equation, the week really has gone to Hell in a handcart. And taken Rafferty with it.
Dying For You #6
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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 cunning disguise he has found it necessary to adopt 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 suspicion is pointed at him?
Bad Blood #7
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Investigating the murder of wealthy widow Clara Mortimer, estranged from her family and living alone in an upmarket sheltered apartment, Rafferty fears his own family estrangement. Because when Abra, his girlfriend, said she might be pregnant, his reaction wasn’t exactly New Man…
Between the grudges of Clara’s estranged family and those of her adoptive ‘family’ — the other apartment residents — Rafferty has suspects and questions in plenty. For instance, why had the sensible Clara Mortimer chosen to open her door to a burglar? When he considers the awful lies her family tells, how can he not conclude they have something to hide?
Love Lies Bleeding #8
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When the delicate Felicity Raine, covered in blood, staggers into Elmhurst's police station, and confesses to murdering her husband before collapsing at Rafferty's feet, he scarcely knows whether to believe her or not. Especially as, when she finally comes to, she seems uncertain herself whether or not she's done the mortal deed. Rafferty pretty soon discovers that she's not alone in her confusion.
Blood on the Bones #9
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‘Nuns!’ Lapsed Catholic DI Joe Rafferty was, appalled to discover their latest murder case is located in an enclosed RC convent. What were a bunch of penguin dressers doing getting involved in a suspicious death? he wonders. It's bad enough that he's forced to revisit his long-since and gladly abandoned Catholicism, but, at the same time, someone is trying to blackmail him. Strangely, his blackmailer fails to make any demands. Which is perhaps just as well, as his current case causes him more than enough angst.
Deadly Reunion #14
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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 becoming a silver surfer and 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.
Kith and Kill #15
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The matriarch of a family of fashion designers, Sophia Egerton, had just celebrated her ninetieth birthday when she is murdered. Was it, DI Joe 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 has a celebration of its 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 many siblings that buying from a ‘man in the pub’ is not the best idea, not least from his police career point of view. But none of them had remembered that Ma has a mind of her own...
Historical Novel
Reluctant Queen
About the Little Sister of Henry VIII
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Mary, the beautiful, younger sister of English king, Henry VIII, reluctantly agrees to marry the aged and sickly Louis XII of France. But before agreeing, she extracts Henry’s promise that she may please herself for her second marriage. Mary is deeply in love with the low-born Charles Brandon, her brother’s boon companion, and is determined to wed Brandon should King Louis die.
At the French court, Mary is pursued relentlessly by her aged husband’s debauched heir, Francis. And with the death of her husband and Francis’s elevation to the French throne and absolute power, her situation becomes desperate. Unprotected, Mary is a captive prey to Francis’s lust for her.
Will she ever be free to go to her lost love? Because since Louis’s death, Mary has become increasingly anxious about the rumours she heard concerning her brother’s plans for her future. Does Henry intend to push her into another loveless marriage to suit himself and the State?
International Conte
mporary Medical Suspense
The Egg Factory
Set in the Infertility Industry
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Desperate, infertile women and the ruthless self-interest of organised crime, come together in this contemporary women/suspense novel set in the infertility industry. Just back from a long work stint abroad, Investigative Journalist Virginia Casey is unprepared for the whirlwind that is about to engulf her.
Her younger sister has just died, suicide suspected. But there is something strange about her death and it is only after the post mortem that Ginnie finds out her sister had aborted a baby. What comes next has her engulfed in the infertility industry and organized crime. Guilt that she wasn't there for her sister when she needed her most a constant companion, she tries to get to the bottom of Karen’s lonely death. .
Her investigation leads her to Infertility expert Dr Sam French, a man she had met previously and whom she had found disturbingly attractive. Then she had shied away from a relationship, but now she finds herself increasingly drawn to him. He insists he wants to help her find out what happened to Karen, But she suspects he has an ulterior motive, especially as he seems set on hindering her investigation.
The Egg Factory, an international new millennium contemporary women/suspense novel set in the infertility industry, shows what happens when desperation turns deadly.
Casey & Catt procedural series
Up in Flames #1
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When Chandra Bansi and her baby, Leela, are burned to death, DCI ‘Will’ Casey and his less than politically correct sergeant, Thomas Catt, rapidly come under pressure from their superintendent to put a couple of skinhead thugs behind bars for arson. But Casey had more questions than the jailing of the skinheads will provide answers to.
His investigation is not helped when his hippie parents decide they need a temporary new home and decamp to Casey’s doorstep.
And when it comes to Chandra’s family, just how respectable is Chandra’s businessman father and her vindictive in-laws? Chandra was a modern young woman who was caught uncomfortably between two cultures. It’s hard to say which of them is the more dangerous.
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