When Constable Evan Evans and his new fiancée decide to travel south
from home in Llanfair, Wales, to visit his mother in Swansea, they're
not expecting the disturbing news that greets them on their arrival: the
young thug convicted of murdering Evan's father several years earlier is
suspected of murder once again. Tried as a juvenile for Evan's father's
death, Tony Mancini only served four years in prison. Now he's been
accused of killing Alison Turnbull, a local teen and the daughter of
Mancini's boss. But when Evan goes to meet the boy face-to-face, he's
surprised to find not the stone-cold killer he expected but a scared
young man who swears his innocence.
Against his own wishes, and ignoring his superiors, Evan believes the
boy's claim of innocence and decides to investigate, at potential peril
to his career. But is his instinct correct, or is Mancini just trying to
save himself? And how will he reconcile his actions with his memory of
his father's murder, which has haunted him for so long? Evan Evans is up
to the challenge, to be sure, and faces it all with characteristic good
humor and the Welsh charm that sets Rhys Bowen's successful cozy series
apart.
