Gallows Lane: An Inspector Devlin Novel 2

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He loves how quite the location is, despite the ongoing building work, and says the area is a perfect place to bring up his children. I shall now be seeking out the other Ben Devlin books to add to my pile of ‘must reads’. I want to see how his life and career progress.

After coming home from a shift at work that finished at 10pm he was surprised to find his wife did not at first appear to be at their house in Wayfield Crescent, Pontnewydd. It was after walking around the village to try and find her that he returned home and found her body. Later, police also found bloody foot and palm prints. Andrea Ashton moved into her new build from Hull in November and says her neighbours moved to the estate from all over the UK.

Gallows Lane and the justice of Presteigne

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The continuing work of tree, hedge, and flower planting and maintenance of the Reserve is carried out by a group of volunteers, the Friends of Gallows Hill. New volunteers are always welcome! Walk the Dog The couple ran the Pentre Hotel in the Rhondda, where they also lived. Police found a heavy, metal file wrapped in brown paper, which they believed was the murder weapon. A ladder was found propped against a window. There were also a pair of men's shoes and a hat.

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Busby was sentenced to be hung on the other side of the crossroads from his inn, after which his body was gibbetted and left for years to sway and creak in the wind on the same spot. Before his execution, however, Busby was permitted to have one last drink in his pub. He sat in his favourite chair and – when he got up to face the rope – he is said to have cursed the seat, warning that anyone who sat in it would meet a premature and violent death. The fact that the breakfast dishes had not been washed up — completely out of character for Margaret — gave police a likely time of death of around 6.30am, when Mr Thomas had left the house.

She had sustained terrible injuries, ribs were broken, and parts of the body were smashed in," the paper reported. Trevor John Edwards - December 11, 1928 There are lots of twists and turns to hold the reader’s interest as the death toll keeps rising and there is also plenty of fast-moving action and a satisfying conclusion as the story reaches its climax. The lawns are trimmed, plants are potted on doorsteps and not a thing is out of place, other than the scaffolding and cabins dotted about as new houses are erected.

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The Caxton Gibbet is unusual as local folklore associates it with a particularly gruesome method of execution – the placing of convicts in a gibbet cage while still alive. The prisoner would then die from thirst, exposure, starvation or a mixture of all three. Drawings of William Lacey and his wife, Pauline, whose throat was slit by her husband, which appeared in the South Wales Echo GALLOWS LANE is a complex police procedural that has equal parts psychological action and physical action. Devlin battles internally with what is right and what is wrong as his wife challenges his loyalty to their family. She believes he selfishly puts their family in harms way for the glory of his job. While Devlin struggles with this internally, externally he's faced with knowledge of a corrupt colleague vying for promotion as well as his own unlawful act performed in an effort to secure justice.