{"id":14981,"date":"2021-01-13T18:32:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T23:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14981"},"modified":"2021-01-13T18:32:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T23:32:07","slug":"corpse-road-by-david-j-gatward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=14981","title":{"rendered":"‘Corpse Road,’ by David J. Gatward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There are three books<\/strong> so far in David J. Gatward\u2019s Harry Grimm police detective series. Corpse Road <\/a><\/em>is the most recent. In this book we see Harry, battle-scarred former paratrooper and current Yorkshire police detective, come up against a world he knows nothing about \u2013 online culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a woman, celebrating her divorce by camping on the Wensleydale moors, is found stabbed to death, the obvious suspect is her ex-husband. But the man suddenly disappears, and gradually Harry\u2019s team begins to realize they\u2019re dealing with a serial killer. Not the sort of thing they\u2019re used to in Wensleydale. And when one of their own team disappears, it will be a race against time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am very much enjoying this series \u2013 the characters are interesting and amusing (the author makes excellent use of a puppy as a social lubricant here), and the setting is beautiful and well-described. However, this is the second book in a row in this series in which I\u2019ve figured out whodunnit before I was supposed to. What’s worse, I figured it out based on a point of online culture of which I, an old fart, was aware while (apparently) Harry\u2019s young team members were not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, recommended for entertainment, with points deducted for plotting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are three books so far in David J. Gatward\u2019s Harry Grimm police detective series. Corpse Road is the most recent. In this book we see Harry, battle-scarred former paratrooper and current Yorkshire police detective, come up against a world he knows nothing about \u2013 online culture. When a woman, celebrating her divorce by camping … Continue reading ‘Corpse Road,’ by David J. Gatward<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[3585,3577,3578],"class_list":["post-14981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-corpse-road","tag-david-j-gatward","tag-harry-grimm"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14984,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981\/revisions\/14984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}