RAFFERTY & LLEWELLYN SERIES BOXED SETS BOOKS 1-4

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A Little Laughter. A Little Mayhem. A Little MURDER . . .

Dead Before Morning #1 
Down Among the Dead Men #2 
Death Line #3 
The Hanging Tree #4 
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DEAD BEFORE MORNING #1

British Detective Joe Rafferty and his partner, Sergeant Dafyd Llewellyn in a murder mystery involving the killing of a young woman bludgeoned beyond recognition, with no ID and found in a secure place to which she supposedly had no admission. Who is she? How has she gained access? And who was responsible for her murder? These are just a few of the questions the detective duo must answer in this first novel in the cozy mystery series. With difficulties besetting them on all sides, including their own superintendent and a media that has decided to adopt the case of the 'Faceless Lady' as their own personal crusade for justice, newly-promoted Inspector Rafferty has something to prove.  

DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN #2

British Detectives Joe Rafferty and his partner, Dafyd Llewellyn set out to discover who killed Barbara Longman, a woman with no known enemies. But when it soon becomes apparent that the murder has been committed by someone who must have known the victim well, the police investigation shifts to the victim's family, the wealthy and influential Shores. Rafferty suspects that Charles Shore, not a man known to forgive failure, will use his influence to damage Rafferty's career should he fail to find the murderer. 

DEATH LINE #3
 

Death Line sees the detective duo trying to solve the murder mystery of the famed 'seer', Jasper Moon, with his own crystal ball. Gradually it becomes clear that Jasper Moon was a man of many parts, not all of them appeared very savoury. Moon was a wealthy man, but seems to have written no will; certainly, Detectives Rafferty and Llewellyn can't find it. In a case involving as many twists and turns as a snake avoiding capture, the detectives must take their murder investigation back through the years to the victim's youth to answer that question: 'Who did it?' And Rafferty fears that after such a long time, the evidence their murder inquiry needs will no longer be there to find. 

THE HANGING TREE #4 

This murder mystery involves Rafferty & Llewellyn in the case of the vanishing hanged man. But when the hanged man turns up in Dedman Woods for a second time, the British detectives are able to confirm that he is a man many had reason to hate. Because Maurice Smith, charged years earlier with four child rapes, had escaped on a legal technicality.

Detective Rafferty feels ambivalent about the case from the start. Not sure his desire to solve it is strong enough, he has to fight the feeling that natural justice, in winning out against the judicial sort, has right on its side. The punishment has, in his book, fitted the crime.

As the usual police procedure continues towards an unwanted conclusion, Rafferty, caught between the law and his own sense of morality, feels this is an investigation that could cause him to demand his own resignation as a detective. 

BOOKS IN THE RAFFERTY & LLEWELLYN MYSTERY SERIES

Game of Bones #18

The Spanish Connection #17
Asking For It #16

kith and Kill #15 

Deadly Reunion #14 
Death Dance #13 
All the Lonely People #12 
Death Dues #11 
A Thrust to the Vitals #10 
Blood on the Bones #9 
Love Lies Bleeding #8 
Bad Blood #7 
Dying For You #6 
Absolute Poison #5 
The Hanging Tree #4 
Death Line #3 
Down Among the Dead Men #2 

Dead Before Morning #1