Rhys Bowen Constable Evans Mysteries Series Books In Order

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Constable Evans Books In Order

The Constable Evans series is Rhy Bowen’s first mystery series and is set in the fictional Welsh village of Llanfair, where the amiable Evan Evans is the detective of the town filled with quirky but lovable characters.

Fans love the books for the sense of humour and charm that Rhys brings to the cozy mysteries. She has a wonderful ear for dialogue and describes Llanfair’s Snowdonia mountain setting vividly because she has Welsh family and frequently visited a little village much like Llanfair in her youth. (In fact, Rhys Bowen is her grandfather’s name.)

The majority of fans recommend reading Constable Evans in order to fully enjoy the lives of the characters as they evolve over the course of the nine books in the series.

1. Evans Above

Evans Above is the first novel in Rhys Bowen’s popular Constable Evans Mystery Series, featuring “appealing characters and intriguing plots” (Booklist).

2. Evan Help Us

The body of eighty-eight-year-old widower Colonel Arbuthnot is found with a suspicious head wound. Constable Evan Evans investigates, but a second death throws the village into turmoil.

3. Evanly Choirs

Peaceful Llanfair is all in a dither. World-renowned tenor Ifor Llewelyn has come to stay in the village. But things soon go horribly wrong . . .

4. Evan and Elle

Madame Yvette’s arrival is causing excitement in Llanfair. Some are enraged that her new French restaurant sits on the site of an abandoned chapel. Others are thrilled about her sophisticated culinary skills…

5. Evan Can Wait

The peaceful village of Llanfair is turned upside down when the body of a film director is found in a deep pool of water…weighed down with slate. It’s up to Constable Evans to unmask the killer before anyone else gets hurt.

6. Evans to Betsy

The charming village of Llanfair, the setting for Rhys Bowen’s beloved Constable Evans mysteries, sits amid lush, rolling Welsh meadows populated with quaint cottages and is considered by many of its colorful locals to be a kind of paradise.

7. Evan Only Knows

Constable Evans hears that the young thug who murdered his father is accused of murder again. But when Evan comes face to face with the boy, he finds a scared young man who may be innocent.

8. Evan’s Gate

Frustrated in his efforts to build his fiancee their dream house, village constable Evan Evans discovers a decades-old skeleton of a young child with disturbing links to a present-day missing child case.

9. Evan Blessed

When Constable Evan Evans investigates the disappearance of a young woman who vanished on Mt. Snowdon, his search uncovers a strange bunker complete with handcuffs and chains, but the case takes a bizarre turn when Evans’s own fiance becomes the next person to disappear.

10. Evanly Bodies

Detective Constable Evan Evans and his new bride, Bronwen, are settling into married life in their little cottage above the village of Llanfair when they meet the daughter of one of the village’s newest families