No corners for the devil - Olive Etchells

Picture a tranquil village on the Cornish coast, home to the Baxter family, delighted to have recently settled in so beautiful a place, taken gladly into the heart of the close-knit community. Then picture a violent crime . . . When a body is found on the beach by the Baxters' youngest son, DCI Channon is the investigating officer. Quiet, clever, compassionate, he keeps an open mind. His assistant, Sergeant Bowles, abrasive and cynical, is keen to pin the crime on Luke, the older Baxter boy. And so a violent crime changes the lives of ordinary people for ever and raises all manner of demons within the once harmonious community. While through all this mayhem DCI Channon, calm, capable and honest, tries to make some sense of the murder, in Olive Etchells' expert hands, there are no corners for the devil to hide.