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...

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.

While spending Christmas off the coast of Wales, Superintendent Runcorn of Scotland Yard discovers the body of the vicar's younger sister. The bachelor never dreams that the secrets of her life and death may open the door to a new future for himself.

The illegitimate daughter of an English lord, Siân Jones abandoned her heritage to live in a stalwart coal mining community in South Wales. Empowered by their cause, she's engaged to be married to the leader of a revolutionary movement that is bracing itself against the tyranny of English mine owners. But Siân's principles are unexpectedly shaken when she accepts a job as governess under Alexander Hyatt, the mysterious Marquess of Craille, the oppressive...