Rhys Bowen
Agatha and Anthony Winner

Evan Evans Series

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Take a trip to the mountains of Wales to visit Evans-the-Meat, Evans-the-Milk and all the other quirky characters in Rhys Bowen’s beloved series.

Now ten books long, future books have been put on hiatus for a while.

Books still in print include Evans Above, Evan Only Knows, Evan’s Gate (Edgar nominee), Evan Blessed and Evanly Bodies.

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Evans Above (1997)

Constable Evans arrives in Llanfair, seeking peace and quiet after a major trauma in his life. When two hikers fall to their deaths on Mt. Snowdon, Evan is sure that the deaths are not accidents—but are they linked to the mysterious destruction of Mrs. Powell-Jones' prize winning tomatoes?

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Evan Help Us (1998)

Constable Evans is drawn into a whirl of cultural pride, deception and greed when a local prodigal son announces plans to erect an amusement park in an abandoned slate quarry. Evan realizes just how deep passions and hostilities lie, and discovers the village's ambition—to earn the right to the longest name in the world. Events soon turn deadly and Evan has to solve two seemingly unrelated murders.

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Evanly Choirs (1999)

Evan doesn't think that the addition of his voice will help the Llanfair choir win the local eisteddfod—they sound terrible. But a miracle occurs when famous tenor Ifor Llewellyn comes back to his birth place and agrees to help the choir. Ifor has only been in the village a few days when the locals realize his presence is a mixed blessing. Noisy fights, a threatening stranger and Ifor's warped sense of humor make life in Llanfair increasingly tense. But is someone unhappy enough to commit murder?

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Evan & Elle (2000)

There is both excitement and dismay in Llanfair when a new French restaurant opens in an old chapel. The glamourous owner, Madame Yvette, tries to win over the locals and everything seems to be going well until a string of arson fires plagues the village. One night the restaurant burns down, and a body is found in the rubble. Constable Evans joins Sergeant Watkins in following a trail of clues that leads them to the South of England and then to France, and finally to the inevitable conclusion that a dangerous killer is loose in Llanfair.

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Evan Can Wait (2001)

Constable Evan Evans, police officer in the village of Llanfair, is assigned to assist an expedition to raise a World War II Nazi bomber plane from a lake. The whole venture is being filmed for a documentary on the war and Evan tries to assist the film crew by finding them local people with stories to tell. Little does he realize that resurrecting the past can sometimes mean opening old wounds.

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Evans to Betsy (2002)

Betsy is finally getting the recognition she thinks she deserves. An American grad student is doing research on psychic ability among the Celts and it seems that Betsy might possess second sight. She is taken to a nearby New Age center for further testing. When the center's flamboyant director goes missing, it is Betsy who dreams where he will be found. Constable Evans is looking into the disappearance of another American college student at the same center. Betsy decides to do a spot of sleuthing of her own. If she were really psychic, wouldn't she be able to see that she's heading into danger?

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Evan Only Knows (2003)

The foot and mouth epidemic is decimating flocks in North Wales. Evan is so sickened by his job that he takes Bronwen to Swansea, to meet his mother. Disturbing news greets them on their arrival. The boy who shot his policeman father has been released from juvenile detention and hs been arrested again for raping and murdering a young girl. Evan feels the need to help out with the case, to make sure the young man goes to jail for good this time. But when he meets Tony, he becomes convinced that the boy didn't do it. Now he has to decide whether to go against his fellow police, his deepest wish and his mother to prove the innocence of a young thug.

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Evan's Gate (2004)

When Constable Evans starts digging out a water line outside the old shepherd's cottage he is renovating, he discovered the skeleton of a child. What's more, he thinks he knows the identity of that child. It was a former playmate of his, who had vanished in the mountains one day. By eerie coincidence Evan is currently looking into the disappearance of another child. A little girl has vanished while playing on a nearby beach. The girls are very similar in appearance and all of the people who were connected with the last child are now back in the area. Can the two cases be connected?

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Evan Blessed (2005)

Constable Evan Evans is almost done planning his wedding. Just as he is ready to relax, Evans meets a hiker whose girlfriend has gone missing on Mt. Snowdon. A search for the girl yields no trace but instead turns up a bunker complete with chains and handcuffs. Are the two related? And if so, where is the girl being held? A series of clues make Evan and the police realize that they are dealing with a clever but twisted mind. Then a second person vanishes and this time Evans knows the victim: his fiancé. Her disappearance makes Evans realize that the culprit's vendetta might be quite personal—and directed at Evans himself.

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Evanly Bodies (2006)

Evan’s wife Bronwen befriends Pakistani teenager Jamila. When Jamila comes to them, distraught because she has found out about an arranged marriage for her in Pakistan, Bronwen tries to intervene. Then Jamila vanishes.

At work Evan is facing three baffling murders—three very different men, each shot through an open window. In his hunt for a serial killer, Evan stumbles upon a link with Jamila bringing disastrous consequences for all involved.

 

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