Evan Only Knows, by Rhys Bowen

This one was was set in Swansea, for a change!

Hate the thought of what the foot and mouth outbreaks might have done to the sheep in Wales.

Evans Above, by Rhys Bowen

Yup. One more.

Evan's Gate, by Rhys Bowen

Yup- another one. Getting a bit sick of these, actually. Almost done with the series, though.

Evans to Betsy, by Rhys Bowen

Tasty little morsel, but I'm starting to think that Rhys Bowen has a bee in his/her bonnet about Druids.

Evan Can Wait, by Rhys Bowen

This was the best yet of the Constable Evans series, for me. A film crew comes to do a documentary on a German WWII plane sunk in a lake, and the history of the area in WWII gets people killed. Some lovely details about how the art from the National Galleries was brought into the mines to keep it safe, and some scenes on the little railways were lovely. This one actually had a plot that kept me interested above and beyond all the gorgeous Welsh town names. Cool read.

Evan Blessed, by Rhys Bowen

A darker Constable Evans mystery- not my favorite of the bunch.

Evanly Bodies, by Rhys Bowen

Mmm, Wales.

But- this one I actually was interested in the plot of, because I had no idea that Muslim immigration was an issue in that area too... I knew that that was a huge thing in other areas nearby, but somehow thought that these small towns and villages were remaining more homogenous, but the whole plot of this book hinged on the difficulties of assimilation, and I just really... wish it hadn't.

Also, I must say I wish Constable Evans hadn;'t married Bronwen. I think a HUGE part of the fun of the Hamish Macbeth's by M.C. Beaton is Hamish mooning over Priscilla while Elspeth, Freda, etc ad infinitum are all so much better suited for him, and the possibilities of romance and the continual confusion and awkward meetings at the Italian restaurant add a lot of fun, and after the first Constable Evans book, I was looking forward to more of the same with Betsy the Barmaid and Bronwen the schoolteacher and so on.

But still, lovely to read the names of the towns.

Evanly Choirs, by Rhys Bowen

Ah-ha! Well, these are a *lot* like the Hamish Macbeth mysteries, but set in North Wales instead of Scotland, in an imaginary town called Llanfair*, which seems to be in between Conwy and Caernarfon, and Constable Evans keeps going to Llandudno, Colwyn Bay, Prestatyn, and so on, which is wonderful beyond all reason.

This one was set around an Eisteddfod at Harlech.

Lovely.

PS. I pay absolutley no attention to the plots of these, so I haven't got a clue if it's a good mystery.

* Definitely not Llanfairpwllgwyngychgogerychwyrndrobwllllantisiliogogogoch.