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Title details for Devil at the Crossroads by Olive Etchells - Available

Devil at the Crossroads

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by Olive Etchells
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Praise for Olive Etchells:

"The most unnerving crimes of violence are the ones that tear apart small, tightly knit communities . . . and Etchells demonstrates this awful process of disintegration."--The New York Times Book Review

When a body is found at the crossroads of a small village, DCI Channon must deal with the ramifications of the incident for the town and its residents--making the murder at the crossroads one of his most difficult cases yet.

Olive Etchells was born in Lancashire, England. She has been writing for many years and is best known for her Jericho Rose Lancashire sagas.

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  • Creators

  • Series

    DCI Channon

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    August 1, 2009

  • Formats

    • Kindle Book

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      • ISBN: 9781569477007

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9781569477007
      • File size: 458 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 15, 2009
      Etchells's third contemporary procedural set in Cornwall to feature Det. Chief Insp. Bill Channon (after 2006's Footprints of the Devil
      ) offers little new in terms of either character or plot. After someone slashes the throat of Paul Stradling, a young man with the reputation of a rake, and props the body against a standing stone, Channon and his team, including his ambitious but rough-edged assistant, Sergeant Bowles, investigate. They conduct the usual interviews, quickly focusing on the Pascoe family as people of interest. The oldest Pascoe daughter reveals she was in love with the victim, and her mother admits she was coincidentally at the scene of the crime, near a crossroads, around the time of the murder. The detection consists simply of good, dogged police work, while the tension between Channon and Bowles over the latter's attitude doesn't add much. Other mystery authors, such as Robert Goddard in Beyond Recall
      , have made better use of the Cornish setting.

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