Impact of Evidence by Carol Carnac

 

Set in Welsh Border country, we are dealing with hardy farmers in a very isolated community. Cut off with heavy snow, now melting into a flood a horrible accident involving a half blind doctor and a young farmer was just that, until the Police discovered that the unknown man in the doctors car also dead, was not dead from the crash but had been killed earlier.

Unraveling clues in a tight knit, very small community was not going to be easy. Everyone was an outsider and despite the doctor driving whilst half blind, no one thought of calling him out or informing the authorities.  Even after his death, the neighbours despite having reservations did not want to point out suspicious ideas they had as to why the doctor chose this remote outpost to live. Investigations move very slowly, but subtly and though in another setting it may have added to the reader being bored, in this case it was just the reverse. The characters, not just the inhabitants but even the detectives serving this area, the setting and the lifestyle added great interest and charm to the story.

Sent by Poisoned Pen Press for an unbiased review, courtesy of Netgalley.