My rating: 4.5 stars
UK crime writer Geraldine Evans adds to her impressive Rafferty and Llewellyn police procedural series with Death Dues, the eleventh in the series.
With DI Rafferty’s impending nuptials threatening to equal the national debt, he and the steady DS Llewellyn are tasked with solving the murder of unsavoury debt collector John ‘Jaws’ Harrison. The murder occurs in a dark alley on a council estate where most of the inhabitants have good reason to want Jaws dead – and for Rafferty the investigation cuts a little too close to home.
Death Dues is a gripping police procedural told with wit and intelligence in which clues are planted with such a light touch they are only obvious once the case is solved. Rafferty’s family dilemmas are well drawn, but if you like family drama laced with angst you won’t find it here. This is a straight police procedural painted with a pallet of internal politics, family baggage and mateship all framed in an intriguing puzzle. Death Dues is a crime novel that doesn’t need bells and whistles to ring with veracity.
Previously traditionally published, Death Dues and the Rafferty and Llewellyn series (15 in all) are now available as e-books.
Go here for an informative interview with Geraldine Evans