The Corpse Road

by Gwen Moffat, John Cooper (Reading)

Investigating the latest Jack-the-Ripper-type murder of a young female journalist in London, Detective Chief Inspector Page of Scotland Yard arrives at the forbidding world of the Northern Pennines in the grip of winter.

He probes into the victim’s background and learns of the husband who swindled and left her. He meets the rector wrestling with problems of personal responsibility; and the curious members of a religious community at Whelp Castle, whose spiritual leader is mysteriously absent...

Can DCI Page crack the case?

Genres: Fiction, Mystery

9 pages, Audio Cassette

First published July 1, 1996

About the author

Gwen Moffat’s main interests are wilderness areas and the genesis of murder, and all her books have featured one or the other. Moffat has writtenboth travel books and novels.

Reviews

[Bandit · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ah, see I thought it was time for one of those old-fashioned old-timey mysteries Lume Press likes to put out but then I read this one and I was like, no. Mind you, sometimes some of these books are genuinely fun but seldom and few and far in between.
Most of them are tediously dated and overwritten. Like this one.
Despite the deliciously ominous title, despite the atmospheric Northern setting, despite even featuring something like a cult, this mystery ends up being nothing more than a very slow muddled murder investigation so dense is style that it overwhelms the plot.
Is that why mine is the first review this book gets with words in it? Either way, read quickly enough but didn’t do much and is already fading from the memory. Buh-bye, book.

[Sall · Rating 3 out of 5]

So many possibilities so few executed. The begining was far too tedious and even when the murders came in there wasn't enough momentum to keep the book going. Given the start there was clearly at least one murder in that area or that it had become an area for disposing of bodies. Cynthia being a murderer well as she was never mentioned it was as unlikley a suspect as any I suppose.

[Gloria Morris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting and intriguing . Main plot was deftly handled with engaging police duo. But the description of the terrain and the terrible weather was stunning and integral to the main narrative.
I very much enjoyed this book . My head is still on The Corpse Road!

[David Eastwood · Rating 4 out of 5]

Found it confusing with too many characters and name changes, hard to keep up with the storyline.