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BLACK
DOG
It's a long, hot summer in the Peak District, but the blue skies are darkened by police helicopters and the sound of birdsong is drowned out by the increasing hysteria of a full-scale search operation for a missing teenage girl. Laura Vernon is smart, sexy and the keeper of many secrets, but now she's lying dead in a thicket in the heart of the country.
The first outing for Derbyshire detective duo Ben Cooper and Diane Fry, and the beginnings of a complex relationship.
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WINNER of the Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel in 2001
FINALIST for the Anthony Award for Best First Mystery Novel
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NAMED one of the best six crime novels of 2000 by the London Evening Standard
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DANCING
WITH THE VIRGINS
In
a remote part of the Peak District stand the Nine Virgins, a ring of stones
overshadowed by a dark legend. Now, as winter closes in, a tenth figure is added
to the circle when the body of Jenny Weston is discovered, her limbs arranged so
that she appears to be dancing.
Against the dramatic backdrop of the White Peak, Ben Cooper and Diane Fry struggle to make sense of a murder that seems motiveless. But the moors have witnessed more bloodshed than either realises, and violence is to beget more violence before the answer is found.
"Terrific... an atmospheric, psychological stunner." - The Bookseller
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BLOOD
ON THE TONGUE
In the icy depths of a Peak District winter, DS Diane Fry finds herself with three dead bodies on her hands. It's all too much for the depleted manpower of E Division to cope with, and Fry needs all the help she can get. But DC Ben Cooper is following a cold trail of his own - and they don't come any colder than this one. On the snow-covered moors lies the burnt-out wreckage of a World War Two bomber, in which all but one crewman died.
What does the area's close-knit Polish community know about the long-ago crash? And could wartime secrets provide the key to an outbreak of present-day violence?
"Atmospheric intensity, living landscape, strong central characterisation, all put at the
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Ben Cooper)
FINALIST
for the CWA Dagger in the Library Award
NAMED one
of the Best Mysteries of the Year by Publishers Weekly in the USA
FINALIST
for the Dorothy Parker Awards for Excellence
FINALIST for
a Bloody Dagger Award for Best
Mystery
Novel
A TOP 10 paperback bestseller for Ottakars’ bookshops in the UK
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A NUMBER 7 crime fiction bestseller in Sweden
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BLIND
TO THE BONES
Amid the desolate moors of the Dark Peak, the villagers of Withens are dying. One has been battered to death and left for the crows to find; another chose the wrong time to call on a neighbour. And one has been dead for two years - though not everyone will believe it.
DC Ben Cooper's attempts to solve the killings come up against an impenetrable barrier in the shape of the Oxley family. And as far as the parents of missing student Emma Renshaw are concerned, their daughter is still alive -- which doesn't help DS Diane Fry in her efforts to re-open the case. Will a grim discovery finally break the Renshaws' grip on reality?
"Once again, Booth has produced a masterpiece of fiction. If you haven't discovered Stephen Booth yet, you should rectify that immediately." - Phoenix Book Reviews
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ONE
LAST BREATH
The vast labyrinth of caverns, passages and subterranean rivers beneath England's Peak District are a major tourist attraction. But this summer not all the darkness is underground, and not all the devils are folk legends. Mingling with the holidaymakers is a convicted killer, bent on revenge.
As they try to anticipate the fugitive' s next move, detectives Diane Fry and Ben Cooper become increasingly puzzled by the case. Why did Mansell Quinn' s two friends refuse to back up his alibi? And why did nobody visit him in prison for the last ten years of his sentence? Nobody, that is, except one of those two friends: ex-soldier Will Thorpe, now living rough somewhere in the Hope Valley.
The police can do little but warn other potential victims to be on their guard. And as the son of Sergeant Joe Cooper, the officer responsible for putting Quinn behind bars, Ben realizes that his own name could be high on the list...
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Soon there will be a killing. Close your eyes and breathe the aroma. I can smell it right now, can't you? So powerful, so sweet. So irresistible. It's the scent of death…
The anonymous caller who taunts Derbyshire Police seems to be just another hoaxer. But DS Diane Fry has to take him seriously when a woman is snatched from a multi-storey car park. It's possible the chilling voice is telling the truth when it hints at earlier murders and bodies waiting to be found in 'the dead place'.
DC Ben Cooper, meanwhile, has found a body - or rather, a collection of bones. This comes as a shock to the deceased's family, for Audrey Steele should have left no bones. Eighteen months ago, after dying from natural causes, Audrey was cremated and her ashes scattered in Edendale's memorial gardens.
Their investigations lead Fry and Cooper into the world of those whose lives revolve around death.
"Stephen Booth leads
Cooper and Fry, and reader alike, down a spiral of unbelievable horror and
corruption.” –
The
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A
dark
night,
an
open
bedroom
window
–
and
three
bullets
that
strike
from
the
darkness.
The
victim
of
the
shocking
assassination
is
a
harmless
middle-aged
woman,
living
a
reclusive
life
in
a
quiet
Peak
District
village.
But
is
she
quite
so
harmless
as
she
seems?
Detective
Sergeant
Diane
Fry
knows
that
innocence
is
no
defence
against
death.
She’s
already
combing
through
the
blackened
wreckage
of
a
family’s
life,
sifting
the
tragic
possessions
of
a
young
mother
and
two
children
who
lost
their
lives
in
a
suspicious
house
fire.
Like
Rose
Shepherd,
the
Mullens
never
saw
the
danger
on
the
night
they
died.
For
DS
Fry
and
her
colleague
DC
Ben
Cooper,
these
are
just
the
first
pieces
in
a
complex
pattern
of
destruction,
the
latest
deaths
in
a
long
trail
of
killings.
To
find
the
answers
they
need,
Cooper
and
Fry
must
take
their
enquiries
far
beyond
Derbyshire,
to
the
other
side
of
Europe
and
back.
Along
the
way,
Cooper
is
forced
to
face
up
to
his
own
ambivalent
feelings
about
mental
illness,
and
an
unexpected
complication
turns
up
in
Fry’s
life
–
a
surprise
in
the
shape
of
a
charismatic
Bulgarian
police
officer,
who
awakens
ambitions
she
didn’t
know
she
had,
and
feelings
she’d
long
since
buried.
Cooper
and
Fry
are
about
to
step
into
dangerous
and
unfamiliar
territory,
where
the
criminals
they
seek
could
be
far
away,
and
yet
their
influence
very
close
to
hand.
Death
can
be
everywhere,
even
lurking
among
the
crowds
in
the
tourist
village
of
Matlock
Bath.
Soon
they
might
discover
some
of
the
reasons
people
can
be
scared
to
live…
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The
atmospheric
and
terrifying
new
thriller,
featuring
Detectives
Diane
Fry
and
Ben
Cooper.
For
decades,
Pity
Wood
Farm
has
been
a
source
of
employment
for
poor
workers
passing
through
Rakedale,
migrants
with
lives
as
abject
as
the
labour
they
sought.
But
now
it
seems
a
worse
fate
may
have
befallen
some
of
those
who
came
upon
this
isolated
community.
Routine
building
work
at
the
farm
has
unearthed
a
grisly
discovery:
a
human
hand
preserved
in
clay.
When
police
dig
up
the
farmyard,
they
find
not
one,
but
two
bodies
-
and
several
years
between
their
burials.
With pressure from a new superintendent and scant forensic evidence to aid them, DS Fry and DC Cooper have only the memories of local people to piece together the tragic history of the farm.
In
a
case
as
cold
as
the
ground,
Cooper
finds
himself
drawn
to
a
desperate
theory:
that
somewhere,
there
lies
a
third
body
which
holds
the
key
to
these
dreadful
crimes.
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On a rain-swept Derbyshire moor, hounds from the local foxhunt find the body of a well-dressed man whose head has been crushed. Yet an anonymous caller reports the same body lying half a mile away.
Called in to investigate the discovery, detectives DS Diane Fry and DC Ben Cooper become entangled in the violent world of hunting and hunt saboteurs, horse theft and a little-known sector of the meat trade. As Fry follows a complex trail of her own to unravel the shady business interests of the murder victim, Cooper realizes that the answer to the case might lie deep in the past.
History is everywhere around him in the Peak District landscape -- particularly in the 'plague village' of Eyam, where an outbreak of Black Death has been turned into a modern-day tourist attraction.
But, even as the final solution is revealed, both Fry and Cooper find themselves having to face up to the disturbing reality of the much more recent past.
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386
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