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#8 in the Evan Evans cozy police procedural series set in the fictional Welsh town of Llanfair. Evan is now a plainclothes Detective Constable just out of training, and his first case involves a missing little girl. The child and her mother are visitors to the area and it is feared that she was abducted by her Russian father, who has been estranged from the mother. But when Evan is digging up the sewer and water lines at the country cottage he's bought and finds the skeleton of a child, speculation runs rampant about the possibility of a serial killer. When it's determined that the skeleton is probably that of a young girl that Evan played with as a child 25 years previous, and that her whole family is in the area for a relative's 80th birthday party, Evan remembers that his old playmate looked very much like the missing girl and wonders if one of the family members is the culprit in both cases. Love this series--I figured out the mystery way ahead on this one, but enjoy the setting and the characters so much that it doesn't really matter. Excellent as always, in fact, even better...this is a very strong entry in the series.
Detective Constable Evans has found a shepherd's cottage with a great view that he and his fiance want to buy and fix up.Meanwhile duty calls as a 5 yr. old has vanished from a seaside caravan park.The chief suspect is the child's father who may wish to spirit her away to his native Russia. Evans wonders if the case is connected to another child who disappeared 25 yrs. ago as that family has come back for a family reunion. This could be a possible double murder.
Detective Constable Evans assists in the case of a missing 5 year old from a seaside caravan. As the detective tries to discover the whereabouts of the missing girl, he is reminded of the similarity between this missing girl and a little blond girl 25 years earlier. Evans is afraid the kidnapper has returned to spirit away another young victim. Evans travels to London to try and discover clues as to her disappearance amidst strong incriminations from the childs mother that her Russian father has kidnapped her and taken her back to his homeland. Many lives are at stake if Evans suspicions are found to be true and he worries that another kidnapping could very well occur and disrupt more lives.
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