Loves Lies Bleeding

by Geraldine Evans

A beautiful suspect causes Detective Inspector Rafferty to do a double takeWhen the blood-spattered Felicity Raine stumbles into the police station reception and confesses that she has just murdered... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0727862618
• ISBN13: 9780727862617
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Severn House
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Love Lies Bleeding

It wasn't a promising day when a pretty young woman walked into the police station where Rafferty was standing and confessed to having murdered her husband. Because she was covered with blood and had confessed, they had to assume she was guilty and that was the angle with which the investigation started. But as Abra said, maybe Rafferty was affected by her looks and inclined him toward hoping she wasn't guilty. Then she decides to visit Llewellyn's mother in Wales and leaves Rafferty to wonder if she's left him for good--again. With Rafferty and Llewellyn both working on the case, other suspects with stronger motives than Felicity's are uncovered. And the personality of the dead man comes to light as not a considerate, loving husband. An ex-husband, a mother who isn't, whispers of abuse, all add to the mix to keep you reading to find out what is going on. Red herrings, motives, suspects a plenty in this whodunnit by talented author Geraldine Evans. Lots of twists in this fun read that will keep you turning pages, you will be looking for other books by this author. Recommended as a read well worth the time. Enjoy. I sure did.

Appearances Can Be Deceiving...

This is another of the series written by Geraldine Evans of England in which Joe Rafferty and Dafyd Llewellyn conspire together to find the person who had perpetrated the crime. In this one, a lovely young woman tramps through the pouring rain without being properly dressed to the police station at Elmhurst and confessed that she thinks she has murdered her husband. She does have a lot of his blood on her clothing, but for the sake of her she cannot remember a thing which happened, or how the blood came to be on the front of her dress. It looked as she had a fatal wound. Rafferty suspects that had she committed such a vicious murder, something would linger in her conscience so that she could be sure of her guilt. He researches Felicity's case more thoroughly than a usual crime, and his live-in girlfriend decides to intervene on her own by going off to Llewellyn's mother to look the scene over. Betty had worked as a director in theatrical workshops in British Columbia, and for four years was a principal director with Playhouse Holiday in Vancouver. She was a teacher of drama and theater. Her short play, "Tea Party," is about two lonely elderly sisters who have outlived their friends and relatives; they see only occasional people like the paperboy or the man who reads the meters. Her sketch shows their plight, touching on the pathos of their loneliness. We need to remember such people during the holiday season, as this is not a happy time for the secluded old ladies who have no family. "Don't you think I'm aware that my mother's been going through a difficult stage in her life, but she could not possibly have committed such a horrendous crime. She had a similar memory lapse earlier in the year." He intervened then and now to smooth things out; "it was the only thing, the humane thing, to do in the circumstances." Rafferty told him, "Maybe now, if she manages to figure out just who was instrumental in getting the charges dropped, she'll realize that she doesn't need to keep things from you -- not now we've discovered that you can be every bit as devious as yours truly." A broken heart does not bleed but the injury is comparable to a fatal stabbing as a part of you does die. It eventually mends a bit but never totally, as to give one's heart is the greatest compliment you can do to the loved one. When he fails to accept it, it is his loss. Many men just don't understand that. But, at least, this time it was not Betty's heart which broke. And she will live on and on until she gets ready to give up the ghost. I think that will be a while yet.