If You're Looking for Love, Be Careful Where You Look Because Some of Those Strangers Are Very Strange Indeed...

In Dying For You, the sixth in the Rafferty & Llewellyn crime series, British author, Geraldine Evans, has her Detective Inspector Joseph Rafferty finding more than he bargained for when, alone, lonely and heading towards forty, after signing up with the Made in Heaven dating agency, he manages to become chief suspect in his own double murder enquiry. And all he'd been doing was looking for love... (Pub: Severn House UK Pub: 24 June 2004 Price Sterling 18.99 USA Pub: October 2004 Price US Dollars 27.95 ISBN No 0 7278 6088 7). 'Evans brings wit and insight to this tale of looking for love in all the wrong places.' Kirkus Reviews

(PRWEB) August 14, 2004 -- In Geraldine Evans's latest novel, Dying For You (Severn House UK Pub 24 June 2004, Price Sterling 18.99. USA Pub October 2004, Price US Dollars 27.95,
ISBN No 0 7278 6088 7), the sixth in her Rafferty and Llewellyn crime series, British Detective Inspector Joseph Rafferty, discovers the truth of this the hard way and finds himself up to his neck in trouble again. Only this time, the danger is greater than getting drummed out of the police force. Much greater. As chief suspect -- unbeknownst to his colleagues -- in his own double murder enquiry, he risks a life sentence.

Heading towards forty and increasingly conscious of his lonely state, Rafferty had signed up with the Made in Heaven dating agency, using a borrowed false identity, which, at the time, had seemed positively wise. What he hadn't bargained on was that the first two women with whom he had struck up a rapport should wind up murdered -- and with himself, or, rather, his alter ego, Nigel Blythe in the frame for the crimes. At least the alias has bought him some valuable time -- it's the only bright element on the entire horizon. But will the alias and the disguise he has since found it necessary to adopt be enough to enable him to carry out the investigation? And will the extra time he's bought prove sufficient for him to find the girls' real killer before the finger of suspicion is pointed at him?

'Evans brings wit and insight to this tale of looking for love in all the wrong places.'Kirkus Reviews.
'This is a very enjoyable read with a plot that moves at a good pace, is full of surprises, has lots of humour and a very satisfactory denouement. Highly recommended.' Mystery Women.
'Proficient writing, an inventive plot, and Evans' usual well-crafted procedural detail make this sixth entry in the Rafferty series a good choice for readers who can't get enough of British coppers.' Emily Melton, Booklist.

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Geraldine Evanss other novels in the series, Dead Before Morning, Down Among The Dead Men, Death Line and The Hanging Tree were all published by Macmillan. Absolute Poison her last novel in the series, was published by Severn House in December 2002. She has also been published in the States in hardback and paperback. Geraldine Evans now lives in Norfolk, England having moved there from London with her husband, George, in 2000. Her other novels include Up In Flames the first in the Casey & Catt crime series and Reluctant Queen, the story of Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's beautiful younger sister, who daringly defied her formidable brother to marry for love.

Geraldine Evans is available for interview