He and his family are able to barely scrape by financially on the meager salary of a state employee (Been there, done that! Another thing that I liked about the book was the author's description of the Yorkshire Dales, a beautiful place. At first, his secondment to the bucolic countryside populated by farmers and tourists seems like the perfect place to go stir crazy, but then a teen goes missing, and soon enough there's a body by a lake and despite his new Superindendent's admonishments to not disrupt the idyl of the dales, as if his IED scarred face wasn't enough to do the job proper like, Harry just has to roll up his sleeves and do the job. The title “Corpse Road” refers to the contextual crime scene, a typical road traditionally used by mourners going to a graveyard.

This seems like a harsh rate, but I treat one star as meaning 'Did not like', and being honest, I did not like it, though there was definitely something in the bones of it that did work for me. His team (they have no actual police station, but operate out of the community center) is low-key but smart and professional, and they’ve taken to him.

Emily Barton's remarkable first novel proves difficult to define; it straddles genres while possessing a curious familiarity, reminiscent at times of Swift and Peake, set against the landscape of a Brueghel painting. The best thing that can be said is that it was mildly diverting for a couple of hours and required no intellectual input from the reader, which was what I needed at the time. Londoner Charlie had sojourned in Yorkshire, where he had been marketing his controversial novel, titled The Hunt.

Ok it appears Harry is a bit of a one man band, not a particular likeable protagonist either and nothing to do with his background as a former Para or the fact his facial scarring after being wounded by a IED whilst in the Parachute Regimen made him look slightly intimidating. It’s a good creepy story with the way you are never quite sure if the waxworks move or not, which makes it suspenseful.This story used the author's experience of moving from Gloucestershire to Wensleydale when he was 8 years old and has created a character, Harry Grimm, who clearly has potential. Just going over the old Roman road,’ Jim said, not slowing the Land Rover down, so Harry didn’t really get a good look. I do hope the author improves this, because seriously - Yorkshire exists in XXI century, so its inhabitants are all modern people. Sophie, who fell out with her parents after using foul language at a church and for her rebellious behavior at home, was out of favor with her bullying classmates—especially classmate Jennifer Sharp who nicknamed her Celibate Sophie—,her principal Mrs. 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.