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The Coffin Trail
(2004)(The first book in the Lake District Mystery series)
A novel by Martin Edwards
What is meant as a fresh start in the English Lakes District begins to reek of buried secrets....
Oxford historian and TV personality Daniel Kind and his new lover, Miranda, both want to escape to a new life. On impulse they buy Tarn Cottage in Brackdale, an idyllic valley in the Lake District that Daniel knew as a boy. He is still fascinated by a place so remote that the dead had to be carried out over the peaks on pack animals along the ancient Coffin Trail. But though the couple hope to live the dream of downsizing, the past has a way of catching up.
Tarn Cottage was once home to Barrie Gilpin, an autistic youth suspected of a savage murder-what looks like the ritualistic killing of a young woman visitor to the valley. She was found laid out on the Sacrifice Stone, an ancient pagan site up on the fell. Barrie fell to his death near the crime scene before he could be questioned. All these years later, Daniel retains his belief in Barrie's innocence and questions his own policeman father's handling of the case. When DCI Hannah Scarlett and her squad launch a cold case review, Brackdale's skeletons begin to rattle&. The wild geography of the Lakes District plays against local literary references, all backdrop to the lives of villagers and outsiders drawn to this beautiful spot - but for what reasons? The Coffin Trail launches a new series by a master British hand.
Genre: Mystery
Oxford historian and TV personality Daniel Kind and his new lover, Miranda, both want to escape to a new life. On impulse they buy Tarn Cottage in Brackdale, an idyllic valley in the Lake District that Daniel knew as a boy. He is still fascinated by a place so remote that the dead had to be carried out over the peaks on pack animals along the ancient Coffin Trail. But though the couple hope to live the dream of downsizing, the past has a way of catching up.
Tarn Cottage was once home to Barrie Gilpin, an autistic youth suspected of a savage murder-what looks like the ritualistic killing of a young woman visitor to the valley. She was found laid out on the Sacrifice Stone, an ancient pagan site up on the fell. Barrie fell to his death near the crime scene before he could be questioned. All these years later, Daniel retains his belief in Barrie's innocence and questions his own policeman father's handling of the case. When DCI Hannah Scarlett and her squad launch a cold case review, Brackdale's skeletons begin to rattle&. The wild geography of the Lakes District plays against local literary references, all backdrop to the lives of villagers and outsiders drawn to this beautiful spot - but for what reasons? The Coffin Trail launches a new series by a master British hand.
Genre: Mystery
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Hardback Editions
June 2005 : UK Hardback
October 2004 : USA Hardback
June 2004 : UK Hardback
Paperback Editions
March 2013 : Canada Paperback

Title: The Coffin Trail
Author(s): Martin Edwards
ISBN: 1-4596-5615-6 / 978-1-4596-5615-4 (Canada edition)
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Availability: Amazon
November 2005 : USA Paperback
October 2005 : UK Paperback
October 2004 : USA Paperback
Audio Editions
March 2005 : UK Audio Cassette
Kindle Editions
September 2011 : USA Kindle edition

Title: The Coffin Trail: A Lake District Mystery (Lake District Mysteries Book 1)
Author(s): Martin Edwards
Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press
Availability: Amazon
January 2011 : Australia, Canada, UK Kindle edition