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About

Rhys Dylan was born and raised in the Swansea Valley where he got the chance to work summers on an open cast mine. But he spent his working life as a doctor before the writing took over. Though crime fiction, he'd argue, requires much the same skills: close observation, pattern recognition, and a high tolerance for things going badly wrong.
After publishing some novels for adults under his own name, two of which became BBC films, he dabbled in children’s books and contemporary fantasy before eventually settling back into crime once retirement from the day job allowed. His first novel as Rhys Dylan, The Engine House, appeared in 2022 and introduced DCI Evan Warlow: a retired detective dragged back to work when a landslip on the Pembrokeshire coast uncovers two bodies missing for eight years. Warlow has not been allowed to retire since. The series now runs to twenty books, published under his own imprint, Wyrmwood Books, and has made him an Amazon bestseller in four countries.
He writes the kind of crime fiction that is set somewhere real, features people you might actually meet, and takes the landscape as seriously as the corpse. Wales, in other words.