Andrew K. (kuligowskiandrewt) - , reviewed on 2/22/2014 + 569 more book reviews

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What do you do when the person who killed your father but got away with a slap on the wrist is arrested for another murder but you don't think he did it this time? If you're North Wales police constable Evan Evans, you dig to find the truth after all, that is what his late father would have done.

This 7th book in Rhys Bowen's Constable Evans Mystery series deviates from other books in the series in that the action takes place in the South Wales city of Swansea, rather than the North Wales village of Llanfair. Yes, favorite village characters do make a cameo appearance, but most of the book features new characters, including Evans' and his fiancee Bronwen's immediate families. As such, there is a slightly different flavor but only slight. Evans is still Evans, and still digging into mysteries and still vexing his superiors.

I applaud the author for coming up with a way to send a new breeze into the series without losing its spirit, and for tying it into Great Britain's historic foot-and-mouth (known as hoof-and-mouth in the US) epidemic in the early 2000's without turning our police constable into a Ministry of Agriculture expert on the subject.

I'm running out of series the author only produced 10 books before moving on to other interests so I plan to savor the next 3. And perhaps to continue to badger Miss Bown to add an 11th book ...

RATING: 4 stars.

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