Evan's Gate

By: Rhys Bowen

Narrated by: Roger Clark

Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

When Constable Evan Evans discovers a beautiful shepard's cottage in the mountains of Llanfair, Wales, he and his fiancée are thrilled. It's only months before their wedding, and they are eager to begin their new life together. The cottage is in need of renovation, so Evan wastes no time before he begins making much-needed repairs.

But it turns out that Evan's discovery extends far beyond the beauties of a mountaintop view and a cozy dream house when Evan finds the skeleton of a child buried in the front yard. His professional inclinations soon get the best of him, and he cannot rest until he discovers the identity of the child.

The skeleton is decades old, but the discovery eerily coincides with the case of a present-day missing girl. Although discouraged by his fellow detectives, Evan dives into the mystery of both missing children. He soon realizes that if he can solve the decades-old death, he just might find a crucial insight into the whereabouts of the child missing in the present day.

Rhys Bowen's newest spellbinding addition to her critically acclaimed cozy series will win the hearts of fans and newcomers alike.

©2004 Rhys Bowen (P)2020 Audible, Inc.

Narrator disappointment

The narrator really did a very poor job with accents off from the main welsh characters. Thank goodness those characters did not speak long as they were all hard to listen to.

Another wonderful Evan Evans murder mystery

Wonderful Evan. Great narrator. Terrific story. Another awesome book in this series. If you haven’t read any of the books in this series start from the beginning. Eventually, you’ll get to this one. They’re all great.

Book Eight and Still Great

An old shepherd's cottage in the mountains lead to Constable Evans discovering a body. The skeleton of the child has been there for decades, but Constable Evans cannot rest until he solves the mystery. His discovery comes at the same time that there's an active investigation of a missing child. Are the two cases connected? GREAT STORY

good accents

Would LOVE to be able to listen to an audiobook with different voices and sound effects circa 1940’s radio. Those old programs ready engaged the imagination.

Love this series

The cottage sounds amazing. I want to live there. Getting some back story on Evan was nice. Bronwen is so patient with Evan, being the good boy scout that he is, It's very sweet. I thought it was a good storyline and as always, Roger Clark, does a phenomenal job at narrating.

Good mystery

Love these mystery stories.
Well written and entertaining that brings you to the country side of the uk.

Another Brilliant Story

This story was so well done. I love how she is developing the characters. I look forward to the next one.

You couldn'r have hired a Welsh narator?

The very least the narator could have done would a been a modicum of research to discover that Welsh ALWAYS puts the emphasis on the penultimate sylable. I wince everytime he mispronounces a place name.
I'll let him off the difficult LL sound - but really!

Another cracker!

Another outing with Evan Evans, with multiple story lines, it's fast paced and never boring. Roger Clark is a great voice to listen to, but I must say I have to chuckle out loud when he does any accent other than Welsh. Bless him, but it's just like when I had books read to me as a child and dad was a bit rubbish as well. It makes it more soothing in a way!

A wonderful and enthralling fiction

Location good, content excellent and challenging unable to stop listening and visualising the locations

Loved it, great story, great narrator.

Great characters who we can relate to in a heart wrenching story which had us laughing one moment and then crying in the next moment.

Evan's Gate

This is a sad story of child abduction and murder, using a historical missing child along side a current one. The current case turns everyone upside down trying to find this poor child, with the memory of a childhood friend going missing when Evan was young and him finding her remains in the garden of the cottage he is hoping to restore. Read brilliantly once again by Roger Clark.

One of the best books

Lots of twists & turns. Brilliant listen. I loved the Celtic passages and the Welsh geography lessons