#8 in seriesInspector Rafferty gets himself into trouble yet again by speaking before thinking, in LOVE LIES BLEEDING, the eighth in this humorous cozy mystery set in Essex, England.A most unlikely murderer, is DI Joe Rafferty's immediate thought when the slender and bloodied Felicity Raine stumbles into the police station and confesses to killing her husband.He thinks her even more unlikely a murderer when he meets her in-laws and catches them out in several deceits. There is something peculiar going on, he is convinced. Because, owing to the establishment of a Trust, although Felicity isn't down to receive any financial benefit from her husband's death, others in the Raine family are. Is one of them attempting to set Felicity up to take the rap?The case prompts Rafferty to more deeply investigate what lies beneath the surface—not only in his current investigation, but in his tangled personal life, too.