'A WONDERFULLY ENTERTAINING READ'. A Little Laughter. A Little Mayhem. a Little MURDER... 'The old crossroads used to run by here,' Sam told Rafferty. 'Legend has it that this was the original Hanging Tree.' When Inspector Rafferty hears that a bound and hooded body has been seen hanging from a tree in Dedman Wood, he dismisses it as a schoolboy hoax. But then the witness turns out to be a respectable local magistrate, who identifies the corpse as Maurice Smith. Once accused of four child rapes, Smith's case became a cause-celebre when it was thrown out on a legal technicality, causng much ill-feeling in the community. And now Smith seems to have disappeared... 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? 'CLEVER AND BELIEVABLE CHARACTERS.' There are eighteen books in the Rafferty & Llewellyn series. BOOKS IN THE RAFFERTY & LLEWELLYN SERIES Dead Before Morning #1 Down Among the Dead Men #2 Death Line #3 The Hanging Tree #4 Absolute Poison #5 Dying For You #6 Bad Blood #7 Love Lies Bleeding #8 Blood on the Bones #9 A Thrust to the Vitals #10 Death Dues #11 All the Lonely People #12 Death Dance #13 Deadly Reunion #14 Kith and Kill #15 Asking For It #16 The Spanish Connection #17 Game of Bones #18 ABOUT THE SERIES: DI Joe Rafferty, working-class lapsed Catholic, is cursed by coming from a family who thinks -- if he must be a copper -- he might at least have the decency to be a bent one. When you add the middle-class, more moral than the Pope intellectual DS Dafyd Llewellyn to the brew the result is murder with plenty of laughs for the reader and plenty of angst for Rafferty. Newsletter Sign-up Link for new releases, bargain buys and free offers. Please copy and paste link into your address bar: eepurl.com/AKjSj WEBSITE/BLOG: https://geraldineevansbooks.com

'This was an interesting and entertaining mystery. I highly recommend it to other mystery readers.' READER REVIEW Adam Ainsley, a former well-known sportsman expected an ego-boost when he agreed to attend the annual reunion at the prestigious Griffin School. Instead, he is found dead after going for a run in the school's nearby woods. At first, the police assume Ainsley died from a simple heart attack. But the retired ex-professional rugby player was a fit young man in his thirties, who hadn’t been near a doctor for years. The post-mortem toxicology report shows that Ainsley was poisoned, but whether by his own hand or that of another’s is far from clear. DI Joe Rafferty and his partner, Dafyd Llewellyn, discover Adam Ainsley, the school’s sporting hero had made a lasting impression, but not always for his prowess on the sporting field. And when the detective pair delve deeper, they find plenty of reasons for the lasting resentment. But how to prove which one of the ex-pupils has let feelings fester for twenty years, to end in murder, isn’t so readily apparent. Books in the Rafferty & Llewellyn British Mystery series Dead Before Morning #1 Down Among the Dead Men #2 Death Line #3 The Hanging Tree #4 Absolute Poison #5 Dying For You #6 Bad Blood #7 Love Lies Bleeding #8 Blood on the Bones #9 A Thrust to the Vitals #10 Death Dues #11 All the Lonely People #12 Death Dance #13 Deadly Reunion #14 Kith and Kill #15 Asking For It #16 The Spanish Connection #17 Game of Bones #18