ʻProficient writing, an inventive plot, and Evans’ usual well-crafted procedural detail, make this sixth entry in the Rafferty series a good choice for those who can’t get enough of British coppers.’A Little Laughter. A Little Mayhem. A Little MURDER…Detective Inspector Joe Rafferty manages to become chief suspect in his own double murder investigation. And all he’d been doing was looking for love…It had been his sergeant's wedding that had brought home to him that, far from still being the 'Jack the Lad' of old, he was not only lonely, but in danger of turning into a sad old git. So, with his fortieth birthday on the horizon, he decides it's time to take the initiative.To this end, he signs up with the Made in Heaven dating agency. Wary of his colleagues discovering his shameful secret, he persuades his more up-market cousin to let him borrow his ID. It's just unfortunate that the first two women with whom he strikes up a rapport should wind up murdered, and with himself – or rather his alter ego – in the frame for the crimes.Put in charge of the double murder investigation, Rafferty foresees plenty of difficulties ahead. Not least how he is to conduct the case without the witnesses pointing the finger, and saying: 'But that's him. That's Nigel Blythe. The murderer!'RAFFERTY & LLEWELLYN MYSTERY SERIESDead Before Morning #1Down Among the Dead Men #2Death Line #3The Hanging Tree #4Absolute Poison #5Dying For You #6Bad Blood #7Love Lies Bleeding #8Blood on the Bones #9A Thrust to the Vitals #10Death Dues #11All the Lonely People #12Death Dance #13Deadly Reunion #14Kith and Kill #15Asking For It #16The Spanish Connection #17Game of Bones #18
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