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Constable Evans joins Sergeant Watkins to follow a trail of clues that leads them to the South of England and then to France, and finally to the conclusion that a dangerous killer is loose in Llanfair, in Rhys Bowen's fourth Evan Evans mystery, Evan and Elle.There is both excitement and dismay in Llanfair when a new French restaurant opens. The glamorous owner, Madame Yvette, tries to win over the locals, and everything seems to be going well until a string of fires plagues the town. One show more night the restaurant burns down, and a body is found in the rubble.
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Constable Evans investigates serial arson in small Welsh village, fends off flirtation from owner of new French restaurant and ponders his relationship with local schoolteacher. Arson turns to murder and the plot thickens with Welsh nationalists, drug runners and troubled adolescents. Entertaining.
enjoyable mystery. Will try one more. Not quite as good as the M.C. Beaton series with Hamish MacBeth, although very similar.
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Rhys Bowen was born Janet Quin-Harkin in 1941 in Bath, England. She earned her bachelors degree from the University of London. Soon after graduation she worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation as a studio manager and writer. She then took a job working for a textbook company developing reading texts before writing her own books. Her first show more picture book - Peter Penny's Dance - was published in 1976 and changed her career to children's book author. The book earned praise and won numerous awards. In 1981 she wrote a teen novel entitled California Girl which became the first installment in Bantam's Sweet Dreams series. This series grew to include novels such as Love Match, Daydreamer, and Ten-Boy Summer. These Sweet Dreams books started a major trend in young adult publishing. they were praised as an encouragement to reading. Janet Quin-Harkin also authored non-series fiction for adolescents such as award winning novel Wanted: Date for Saturday Night and Summer Heat. She also wrote the young adult historical novels Madam Sarah and Fool's Gold. She then moved on to writng mystery novels whcih included her Constable Evans series. Her book Royal Blood made the New York Times Bestseller list. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Evan and Elle
- Original title
- Evan and Elle
- Original publication date
- 2000
- People/Characters
- Evan Evans; Reverend Parry Davies; Reverend Powell-Jones; Bronwen Price; Madame Yvette
- Important places
- Llanfair, Gwynedd, Wales, UK (fictional)
- First words
- The Reverend Tomos Parry Davies, minister of Chapel Bethel in the village of Llanfair, sang loudly to himself as he drove up the pass from Caernarfon.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Apparently they had just backed into each other and the drivers were climbing out, rolling up their sleeves and ready to fight.
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