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You'll spot him on the edge of gaze, but when you turn, he is but haze...The Following man, folk tune.

When a landslip on Pembrokeshire's stunning coastal path reveals the harrowing remains of 2 bodies, ex-DCI Evan Warlow's quiet retirement is shattered.

As the original investigator for the 2 missing persons eight years before, Evan is recalled to help with what is now a murder inquiry. But as the killer scrambles to cover up the truth, the body count rises.

The Engine House is the gripping debut crime thriller set in the heart of wild Wales from author, Rhys Dylan, an exciting new voice in crime fiction. Perfect for fans of LJ Ross, JD Kirk. JM Dalgliesh and Simon McCleave. Celtic noir with a spatter of dark humour.

A dark past casts a deep shadow.

Evan Warlow is back in the saddle as a DCI, though he isn't yet sure he deserves to be, and there are others who share his doubts.

When a brutal attack on two mountain bikers in the vast solitude of the Brechfa forest leaves one dead and the other badly injured, the hunt is on for the killer. And though the evidence points firmly in one direction, an open and shut case soon becomes murky and unclear.

It's not the first time bad things have happened in these woods. Things that some have tried desperately to forget. But for the killer, it's more a matter of unfinished business. 

Unless Evan and the team can outwit a vengeful and clever murderer, someone else is going to die.

Caution: Death at work is the second book in the DCI Evan Warlow series of fast paced Black Beacons thrillers by Rhys Dylan. Set in the heart of wild Wales this dark murder mystery tinged with wry humour and populated by true-to life characters will keep you guessing. Perfect for fans of LJ Ross, JD Kirk. JM Dalgliesh and Simon McCleave. Celtic noir with a smidgen of dark humour.

Revenge is a dish best served... ice cold.

While beach combing on MOD property, two young boys stumble across a reeking mound of tangled kelp. But it isn't the seaweed that stinks. It's the decomposing corpse beneath it.

Called in to investigate, DCI Evan Warlow's team are faced with finding out how and why the body of a struck-off doctor ended up on a lonely beach within sight of Laugharne's famous Boathouse.

But this is no innocent victim. This is a man with more enemies than friends. A fact that muddies the waters no end as Warlow unearths more and more of the dead man's sordid history. Not to mention a long line of suspects.  

With a killer in their midst hell bent on achieving a deadly goal and determined to let nothing and no one stand in their way, the team need to be on their guard.

Unless they want to end up as victims, too.

Ice Cold Malice is the third book in the DCI Evan Warlow series of Black Beacons thrillers by Rhys Dylan. Set in the heart of wild Wales, this dark murder mystery tinged with wry humour and populated by true to life characters, will keep you guessing. Perfect for fans of LJ Ross, JD Kirk. JM Dalgliesh, TG Reid and Simon McCleave. Celtic noir with a spatter of dark humour.

Nothing bad ever happens in the countryside... right?

When a farmer and his son go missing whilst chasing rustlers, DCI Evan Warlow and his team are called in to investigate. Everything points to a botched raid by heartless thieves, but with no bodies, and little or no clues, the team quickly start chasing their tails.

The close-knit community reels from the shock, but not everyone the team comes across is being entirely honest, and it quickly transpires that, under their prim and proper facades, some have secrets they are desperate to keep.

But even Warlow isn't prepared for the monstrous truth when, like a rabid sheepdog, it finally sits up and bites him on the leg.

He's too busy trying not to get killed himself.

In broad daylight, on a quiet rural road, six year old Osian Howells disappears from his own front garden. In the blink of an eye he's a missing person, taken, in the words of a headline hungry press, for nefarious purposes.  

DCI Evan Warlow knows that the first hours after an abduction are crucial. Decisions have to be made quickly. Evidence can get lost or compromised, persons of interest need to be interrogated. And one or two have the team's antennae twitching.

Worse, the abductor's deviousness seems to know no bounds as cruel taunts pepper the investigation. With emotions at boiling point, and under pressure from family, the press and his superiors all 'gravely concerned' for the boy's welfare. 

As always in such cases, the clock is ticking. Warlow and the team need answers and soon, before a kidnapping turns into something infinitely worse.

Now it's personal...

 DCI Evan Warlow believes that murder is a cardinal sin. Even when the victim is a drug dealing, money-laundering criminal. But when a police officer is shot in the same incident at a tranquil beach near Tenby in South Pembrokeshire... Suddenly it's personal.

What appears, on the surface, to be a falling out between partners in crime, soon spirals into an operation involving gang warfare and a great deal of money.

But even Warlow is not prepared for what lurks beneath the surface of this most terrible of crimes. The truth, hidden under a tangled knot of lies, will lead him to a terrifying conclusion, and that most dangerous of criminals: 

A killer with nothing left to lose.

What do you do when there is No One Near...

High in the Welsh hills, a honeymoon getaway takes a dark turn when a rotting corpse is discovered in the rental property's bedroom.

In a dark, cold and damp December, DCI Evan Warlow and his team head out to investigate.

They find a victim who may not be as innocent as he first seems, and a rural community harbouring the worst kind of secrets.

When a second victim is attacked and a third goes missing, Evan knows he's up against a rogue killer with a Christmas list of his own.

And it's a deadly one.

Can he unmask the culprit before the season's festivities turn into a bloodbath?

The games People Play...

When a revered sports legend falls victim to a brutal home invasion, a nation is shaken to its core. Outrage swells and the press and powers that be demand answers. 

Warlow, fresh from a well-earned vacation, is thrown into the cauldron to lead the investigation. But the victim, despite his iconic status, has secrets of his own. Amidst the chaos of jealousy and rivalry that swirls around the case, a darker underbelly emerges. The pursuit of truth transforms into a gripping hunt, but whose truth is the team hunting?

As is often the case, something else lurks in the labyrinth of deception. Something vile and twisted that could strike again at any moment... unless it's found.

One wrong does not justify another