Olive Etchell's trademark style is in not just cranking out another police procedural (albeit an extremely enjoyable one) but in showing how a murder affects not only the family of the deceased, but also the community as a whole. There is a nice balance between the detective part of the story - very gripping and I certainly didn't even begin to guess it - and the suffocatingly realistic depiction of being part of a family torn apart by murder and suspicion. This is no detached puzzle murder, but topically very up-to-date and with more than a whiff of modern post-9/11 news stories. As a resident of the West Country myself I found the descriptions largely accurate, but Etchells' Porthmenna with its close-knit sense of being a large family is rather too good to be true, and detracts from the realism. The ultra-cute bereaved twins do get rather cloying too, but this was a real page-turner that kept me reading far into the night. Can the cuteness, crank up the realism and this will be a winner of a series that ought to run and run.