Geraldine Evans is the author of eighteen traditionally-published novels, including fourteen in the Rafferty & Llewellyn mystery series, two in the Casey & Catt mystery series, one historical novel (Reluctant Queen), as well as three romances (Land of Dreams The Wishing Fountain, Strangers on the Shore). Her previous publishers include Macmillan, Severn House, Hale, St Martin’s Press and Worldwide (US).
After turning indie, in 2010, as well as publishing her backlist, she independently published a number of other novels, including four Rafferty’s, a romantic suspense (The Egg Factory), collections of short stories and non-fiction.
She started writing in her twenties, but never finished anything. It was only when she hit the milestone age of thirty, that she managed to complete a book. For the next six years she completed a book a year, only the last of which was published. That was her romance, Land of Dreams, which was taken from Hale’s slush pile and published in 1991.
When her follow-up romance was rejected, she felt like murdering someone. So she did. She turned to crime. Dead Before Morning, her first mystery novel and the first book in her now 18-strong Rafferty & Llewellyn mystery series, was another novel that was found in a slush pile, this time Macmillan’s, in 1993, and published, both in the UK and the US. It was the beginning of a long career as a mystery author.
Geraldine Evans is a Londoner, but moved to Norfolk in East Anglia, in 2000.