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Evan Can Wait

por Rhys Bowen

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Fiction. Mystery. HTML: With Evan Can Wait, the fifth addition to her critically acclaimed series, Rhys Bowen creates a colorful, page-turning mystery set in two eras against the backdrop of a uniquely appealing small town filled with unforgettable characters. Constable Evan Evans, sole police officer in the charming Welsh village of Llanfair, is assigned to assist an expedition to raise a World War II German bomber plane from a lake. The whole venture is being filmed for a documentary on World War II and Evans tries to assist the film crew by finding them local people with stories to tell. Little does he realize that resurrecting the past can sometimes mean opening old wounds. After some unhappy confrontations, it is not just the villagers who are upset by the filmmakers. Evans' own life is thrown into turmoil as he discovers his girlfriend Bronwen's past relationship with someone from the film crew. Tensions build until one of the filmmakers disappears and is eventually found dead in a nearby slate mine. The case grows more complex as Evans slowly uncovers evidence that the victim had many enemies. In the process Evans also exposes an elaborate World War II scheme to hide paintings from the National Gallery. Do these paintings have something to do with the filmmaker's disappearance? How could he be connected to events that took place over half a century ago? .… (mais)

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Constable Evan Evans ist der einzige Polizist in dem kleinen walisischen Dörfchen Llanfair. Ein im zweiten Weltkrieg abgestürztes Flugzeug soll geborgen werden und ein Filmteam soll Aufnahmen für eine Dokumentation machen. Evans hat die Aufgabe, Schaulustige von den Dreharbeiten fern zu halten. Doch dann verschwindet Grantley, ein Mitglied der Crew, und wird etwas später in einer stillgelegten Mine tot aufgefunden. Evens ermittelt und stellt fest, dass der Tote nicht besonders beliebt war.
Für mich ist das der erste Band um den Constable Evan Evans. Ich hatte auf Grund des Genres zwar keine riesige Spannung erwartet, aber für mich plätschert die Handlung so dahin. Der zweite Handlungsstrang führt zurück in die Vergangenheit - und zwar in die Zeit des zweiten Weltkrieges – und ist etwas interessanter.
Die Charaktere sind sehr gut und individuell beschrieben. Besonders die Dorfbewohner sind etwas urig. Evens berät sich gerne mit seiner Freundin Bronwen, doch dieses Mal erfährt er über Bronwen sogar noch Neues.
Die Ermittlungen sind nicht einfach, dass es eine Reihe von Verdächtigen gibt, aber leider sorgt das nicht für die erwartete Spannung. Auch wenn das Ende dann überrascht, konnte mich dieser Krimi nicht packen. (

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buecherwurm1310 | Jul 18, 2019 |

This is a case of "it's not you, it's me." I'm not much of a cozy mystery reader and this book didn't convince me to change my reading ways. I found it repetitive as Evan(s) kept mulling over the latest developments and the various suspects, and the stakes weren't very high; I found no reason to care who killed the victim or why. The bits of Welsh were interesting, and the tone of village hijinks was amusing in places, but the mystery itself was lacking for me. On the plus side, that's one less series to worry about keeping current with. (

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rabbitprincess | Apr 6, 2017 |

I mentioned this author and her Constable Evans books as read-alikes for M.C. Beaton's Hamish Macbeth books, but I had never actually read any of Bowen's Constable Evans books. I decided to fix this, and it was a good decision. I can now say from personal experience that the Constable Evans books are definitely good read-alike suggestions for those who liked the Hamish Macbeth books. In this particular book, Evan Evans has the annoying task of watching out for a bunch of people filming a documentary about the recovery of a WWII plane. The most insufferable of the documentary people is murdered, and Evan must figure out who did it. The case ends up being tied to a bit of local history about some paintings that had been hidden in the slate mines during WWII.

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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:

With Evan Can Wait, the fifth addition to her critically acclaimed series, Rhys Bowen creates a colorful, page-turning mystery set in two eras against the backdrop of a uniquely appealing small town filled with unforgettable characters.
Constable Evan Evans, sole police officer in the charming Welsh village of Llanfair, is assigned to assist an expedition to raise a World War II German bomber plane from a lake. The whole venture is being filmed for a documentary on World War II and Evans tries to assist the film crew by finding them local people with stories to tell. Little does he realize that resurrecting the past can sometimes mean opening old wounds. After some unhappy confrontations, it is not just the villagers who are upset by the filmmakers. Evans' own life is thrown into turmoil as he discovers his girlfriend Bronwen's past relationship with someone from the film crew.
Tensions build until one of the filmmakers disappears and is eventually found dead in a nearby slate mine. The case grows more complex as Evans slowly uncovers evidence that the victim had many enemies. In the process Evans also exposes an elaborate World War II scheme to hide paintings from the National Gallery. Do these paintings have something to do with the filmmaker's disappearance? How could he be connected to events that took place over half a century ago?

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