Evan's Gate

by Rhys Bowen

Book Overview

Welsh Constable Evan Evans plumbs the past and present to search for connections between two troubling crimes in the eighth novel in this "consistently satisfying mystery series."* Evans has found the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312301146
• ISBN13: 9780312301149
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Evans Gate

This series never fails to please. It covers the quirkiness and foibles of a Welsh village with the help of a good plot line and the very likeable Evan Evans. The author has the talent to make you care about the characters and what happens to them.

Evan Evans searches for a lost child...

This is perhaps the 3rd or so book in this series that I've read, and I think it is my favorite so far. The plotting is more complicated, and there are really two mysteries under investigation: the first involves a 5 year old child who is reported as abducted from a beach (by her noncustodial Russian father or is it more sinister than that?) and the skeleton of a child of a similar age found buried in front of a shepherd's cottage that Evan has bought. Evan feels that the abduction of the child may be related to the older death of the child buried by his cottage, but his superior disagrees. However, he is allowed to spend some of his time looking into the older case while the search goes on for the missing child. This book moved right along. There was a red herring on just about every page, although I had some general ideas about how both mysteries would turn out (which proved to be correct). I still was left with some concerns about whether the solution worked from the viewpoint of the timeline, but that's a technical point that doesn't detract from the mystery. If you like this series already, I'm sure you'll find this book a particularly good addition. If you haven't read any yet, if you like the Celtic Cozy mystery (like M.C. Beaton's Hamesh MacBeth), you're in for a Welsh treat.

Dueling Mysteries and Lots of Fun

When a young girl goes missing from Porthmadog, Constable Evan Evans is among the police called in to search for her. The girl's mother is quick to blame her husband, who might be planning to return to his native Russia. Couple that with the girl's recent heart transplant and Evan knows the pressure is on to find her before time runs out. Meanwhile, Evan is restoring a cottage in Llanfair to move into after he and Bronwen get married. While digging a trench, he finds the skeleton of another girl. Evan quickly guesses it was a girl he knew who disappeared 25 years ago. Are the two cases connected? This is another excellent entry in the series. The plot was well constructed to fool the reader. While I figured things out before Evan, it wasn't much before, and that was based on some lucky guesses. While there is plenty of time spent outside Llanfair, its home base in this book, and we get some very humorous scenes with the locals we've gotten to know over the last few books. I'm disappointed to be up to date on this series. I've always enjoyed having a pile of these books to look forward to reading. I can't wait until the next book in this fun series coming out.

Strong police procedura l series

With his promotion, Evan Evans is now a Detective Constable and his future never looked brighter. In September, he is marrying the woman he loves and they are going to live in a fixer-upper cottage in the National Park adjacent to the North Wales town of Llanfair. Before he can work on the sewer system to get them ready for inspection, he is called in on a case of a missing five year old girl whose mother thinks was abducted by the child?s Russian immigrant father.The case is urgent because the child has had a heart transplant and she needs the anti-rejection medication to survive. A search for the father draws a blank and Evan takes a break to work on the underground sewer lines near his house. When he digs a few feet, he finds the body of a young child who was probably interred two decades ago. This case is personal for Evan because he played with the child when they were youngsters and he?s determined to find out how she got in the hole. In the meantime, the mother of the missing girl has disappeared and Evan believes when he finds her, he will solve that crime.Each novel in this series keeps getting better because the hero learns from his mistakes and knows how to be part of a team. The romance between him and his fianc?e adds a nice touch of spice to this special cozy as the police have to investigate the death of one child and the disappearance of another. Rhys Bowen attractively brings North Wales to life in this police procedural series.Harriet Klausner

Evan's Gate is excellent

I enjoyed Evan's Gate very much. I got so wrapped up in the dual plotlines that I did not stop reading until I finished. There were enough red herrings that I was not able to figure it out as I did in the previous books of the series. It was especially sad when the mystery of Sarah was uncovered. This was especially well written and plotted. I cannot wait for the next one!