Evans Above

This is the first in the series and my first by this author, but I was not disappointed. It took 25 pages or so to get into the book, but after that, I kept wanting to get back to it.The Welsh setting (in a village by Mount Snowden) figures large in this book. Constable Evan Evans (how much more Welsh a name can you get?) is a Welshman (Welsh is his first language, English his second) who (even though he was on track to... Read Full Review

Constable Evan Evans is enjoying his quiet job in the small Welsh village of Llanfair. The only things that occupy his time are avoiding attempts to set him up with eligible women like Betsy the barmaid and answering the occasional call from Mrs. Powell-Jones about trespassers in her garden.But one day, two bodies are found on nearby Mount Snowden. Both look like hiking accidents, but Evan is convinced that something strange... Read Full Review

Constable Evans is one of the best reads to come along in recent times. The stories are well plotted and Evan Evans is all male without being raunchy. Good clean books.

Bowen does it again with her flavorful look at a small hamlet village in Wales. Her characters are warm and comfortable and Evans the Constable is wonderful and lovable. This is the Cabot Cove of Wales, with a little romantic pressure added in. A must read for those cold winter nights or rainy summer days, or anytime for that matter!

Very good. Heroic, humorous, decent, kind. Like Tony Hillerman and the sadly unrecognized British writer Bill Knox.