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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Super sleuthing Five reviewers have already praised this novel and I wholeheartedly agree with them. This is the first Martin Edwards novel I've read and on the strength of it have already bought the second and third in this series of Lake District mysteries featuring Daniel Kind, an Oxford historian and one-time TV personality (more Michael Wood, I think, than Simon Schama or David Starkey)and DCI Hannah Scarlett who heads up a cold case review team. However, Daniel and Hannah are not partners: Daniel is with Miranda, and... more info
i need to know what happens next! Having read some of Martin Edwards Harry Devlin novels I was intrigued to read the Lake District series.They promised to be a complete contrast to the characters and settings found in his previous books.I was not disapointed!I read The Coffin Trail and The Cipher Garden back to back and was totally hooked!The characters are wonderfully believable, the plot complex and riveting(I had no idea "who done it" until nearly the last page!).I know the Lake District quite well and it was truely magical to read a... more info
Atmospheric mystery This is the first in a series of fantastic murder mysteries set in the Lake District. Daniel Kind leaves his secure job as a historian at Oxford, and, on a whim, moves to a dilapidated cottage in the Lake District with new girlfriend, Miranda. Some years earlier, a young woman was murdered and her body left on the Sacrifice Stone, a local landmark. Barrie Gilpin, a loner, who used to live in the cottage Daniel has bought, was found dead at the bottom of nearby cliffs. Case conveniently closed. Daniel's... more info
Secrets from the past I found this book well written with realistic characters. Daniel and Miranda have moved to the Lake District to get away from the past. DCI Hannah Scarlett feels she has been sidelined when she is appointed to the cold case review unit. Hannah worked with Daniel's estranged father before he was killed in a car accident. Daniel knew the man who was locally regarded as the muderer of Gabrielle - a beautiful model who was staying in the Lake District to visit her friend Tasha married to a local businessman.... more info
