- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Allison & Busby (1 July 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0749083204
- ISBN-13: 978-0749083205
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.6 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 994,040 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"'First rate...an engrossingly creepy crime thriller' Guardian 'A clever psychological thriller' Sunday Telegraph"
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Purchasing Tarn Cottage in a remote village in England's Lake District, Oxford historian Daniel Kind and his lover Miranda find the evil of the past intruding when memories of a ritualistic murder, the death of the alleged killer - who once lived in Tarn Cottage - and DCI Hannah Scarlet's investigation into the cold case threaten to reveal.
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38 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Edwards does it again!,
By K R Insole "Karen" (Ascot, Surrey) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Coffin Trail (Paperback)
This is one sharp novel. Introducing DCI Hannah Scarlett, Edwards brings us a fantastic thriller which surprises and intrigues by turn. The Lake District plays an eerie backdrop to Daniel and Miranda's hope for a peaceful new life in beautiful Brackdale. However, secrets past and present come to haunt the characters, and question their - not to mention the reader's - loyalties, right up to the very end.
This a highly convincing thriller, perhaps Edwards' best yet; if you're looking for an exciting crime novel this summer, look no further than this.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Secrets from the past,
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This review is from: The Coffin Trail (Paperback)
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. Can Daniel and Miranda really escape the past and did Barrie really murder Gabrielle? Barrie is conveniently dead and cannot answer but Hannah, who worked on the original case thinks Barrie is too obvious a suspect and starts to look at the case again. Stirring up the murky depths of local history can have terrifying consequences.
The Coffin Trail is very well plotted and will keep you guessing until the last few pages. I recommend it. I shall definitely be buying the others in the series.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: The Coffin Trail (Hardcover)
Daniel Kind wants to make a sea change. He and his new partner Miranda impulsively buy a run down cottage in the Lake District, vowing to cut off all contact from Daniel's university past and Miranda's horror work experiences. What Daniel neglects to tell Miranda is that Tern Cottage once housed a childhood playmate who in adulthood was accused of being a murderer. Opinion is still divided in the quiet town of Brackdale as to whether the simple and introverted Barrie Gilpin would have slain a young woman and left her to the crows on an old local sacrificial stone. Barrie's death from falling down a ravine conveniently tied up the murder case for the local constabulary at the time but Daniel still doubts. His investigations become his new occupation, and it doesn't make him popular with townsfolk who would prefer that old sleeping dogs were left to lie.Detective Chief Inspector Hannah Scarlett can smell a sideways move in the wind, and so can all her colleagues. Re-assigned to head up a cold case squad in the familiar surrounds of the Lake District Hannah decides things could be worse and gets stuck into re-investigating the old murder of Gabrielle Anders. Gabrielle stirred up the flames of more than just the starry eyed Barrie Gilpin when she blew into town long ago, and few have forgotten her. There's plenty of suspects and plenty of reasons why someone would want the traveler dead, and Hannah finds a person of like mind in Daniel Kind, son of her former partner. Daniel once holidayed in the area as a child and was one of the few ever to know or be kind to loner Barrie. As the investigation deepens Hannah finds that more than one alibi was falsified for the sake of Brackdale community peace. "The Coffin Trail" is an involved read in that there are many sub plots and complex relationships involved that you must keep a handle on. It remains a whodunit to the final chapter and is cleverly arranged to give the reader a broad choice upon who to throw their suspicions. This book has the feel of a "closed town" murder in that all suspects involved in the past crime are still about and interacting with each other in the present. "The Coffin Trail" is a great read with all the right elements for the reader who likes to get deep down into a murder mystery.
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