Evans Above is a cozy mystery, but at the heart of this book is a decent mystery story, with multiple suspects, red herrings, and a pretty good solution. It's cute (which, to be honest, is not one of the criteria I look for in a mystery) but I liked it.

Evan Evans, often known as Evans-the-Law so as to distinguish him from Evans-the-Post or Evans-the-Meat (it's Wales...Evans is a popular name), is the policeman in the small village of Llanfair, in the Snowdonia area (known in Wales as Eryri). As the story begins, he's called upon by the owner of a chalet on the mountain to look into a missing mountain hiker, but by the time Evans gets around to getting up to the mountain to check it out, he's investigating the hiker's death. puts it off One evening he is called up to the mountain to investigate a hiker's death. He's immediately suspicious, but his superiors cannot help him out because they're all involved in a child molestation case.
When another man is killed, again on the mountain, Evans knows he must solve it on his own.

Very light in tone, it was a good read. I liked the main character. I'm really not very at home with cozy mysteries, although I read them from time to time, and this is one of the better series starters I've come across in that genre. Readers of cozy mysteries will like it; readers of more edgy & serious mystery readers will find it a little light. I'd recommend it to cozy readers or those who like their mystery on the lighter side. ( )

Set in postwar Britain, Mrs. Hawkins lives in a boarding house and is a plump war widow who works in publishing. Filled with eccentric characters, the novel is charming and short, but also biting and witty. ( )