The serene North Wales village of Llanfair is again roiled by intrigue and murder. Evan's worries begin when his schoolteacher wife, Bronwen, introduces him to Jamila, a London-born teenager of Pakistani descent who pleads for their help after she learns that her radical Muslim brother has persuaded their parents to take her back to Pakistan to be married. Evan has also been assigned to a new task force just as a wave of homicides spreads through...

The disappearance of a big-name film producer in his sleepy Welsh village finds Constable Evan Evans investigating a murder and a wartime plot to hide valuable paintings from the National Gallery.

When Constable Evan Evans and his new fiancee travel south to visit his mother, they're greeted with the news that the young thug convicted of murdering Evan's father years earlier is suspected of murder once again.