I only wish more people had decided to indulge their inner editor or inner honest reviewer because a very mixed bag has come out of it. He was a detective in the city of Bristol, but was seconded up to rural Wensleydale in Yorkshire when the local inspector went on leave. The lake itself, Semerwater, stretched out before them, a still thing of silent blackness, like an enormous hole waiting to swallow them. In the great tradition of English small-town copper stories, though, the troubles of the big city follow him. When a foul-natured and unpopular local farmer is found crushed under the wheels of one of his own wagons, it looks like an accident at first.

He arrives and finds the total police presence there consists of two PCSOs working out of a room in the local community centre and his fears seem to be realised. The title “Corpse Road” refers to the contextual crime scene, a typical road traditionally used by mourners going to a graveyard. A fabulous chapter in the Grimm Series that is as good as Grimm Up North, with a great plot and the storyline still as strong.As a reader I don't care if the author is sure about something and I don't want to be told things like I'm ticking off a list, i.

Harry Grimm is a great character with an interesting back story and a crime series set in the Yorkshire Dales is a nice change. Harry is juggling the homicide investigation with his own long-estranged father—who, decades earlier, killed Harry’s mother and apparently injured his imprisoned sibling Ben—who has since reached out and gives him an unwanted danger warning. Runaways aren’t that uncommon, of course, but this followed a major scene at church when the girl supposedly received a text from her boyfriend.Aubrey Parsons has the perfect gravelly voice and West Country accent for Grimm but also manages to do a Scottish accent as well as all the different Yorkshire voices. On arriving at the Board Inn, Harry had found the rest of the team to be already waiting for them, that being Detective Superintendent Graham Swift, Detective Inspector Gordanian Haig, and Detective Constable Jenny Blades. I feel like they are all people I could actually meet in the street, all the little details like their daily routine and the chit chat with their brews and biccies, love it! Also present are Charlie’s elderly accountant, his young female assistant, and a couple shabby-nobility hangers-on. He and his family are able to barely scrape by financially on the meager salary of a state employee (Been there, done that!