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(0)Stephen Booth
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Publication Date
2012
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English
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A May Bank Holiday in England's Peak District is ruined by the tragic drowning of an eight-year-old girl in picturesque Dovedale.For Detective Constable Ben Cooper, a helpless witness to the tragedy, the incident is not only traumatic, but leads him to become involved in the tangled lives of the Neilds, the dead girl's family.As he gets to know them, Cooper begins to suspect that one of them is harbouring a secret - a secret that the whole family...
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Publication Date
2012
Language
English
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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 999 caller reports the same body lying half a mile away.Called in to investigate the discovery, E Division 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...
3) Dying to Sin
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Publication Date
2012
Language
English
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When builder's labourer Danny Ward is asked to dig the foundations for a new wall during the conversion of Pity Wood Farm, he doesn't expect to find a human hand preserved in the clay.And when the police arrive to dig up the farmyard, they don't expect to find not one body, but two – with several years between their burials.DS Diane Fry and DC Ben Cooper are part of the Derbyshire CID team tasked with piecing together the lives of the Sutton family...
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HarperCollins
Publication Date
2015
Language
English
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In this East Midlands village, there's only one way out . . . "Top notch crime writing with an irresistible sense of place." ―Lancashire Evening Post The picturesque English village of Shawhead has one road in and one road out. And on that road this morning is an abandoned vehicle . . . with an ominous bloodstain inside. It's a mystery. It could be a murder. Where—and who—is the driver? Whose blood has been discovered? Why are the people...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Date
2014
Language
English
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When it comes to murder, nothing is sacred . . .
For centuries, mourners in Derbyshire have used the Corpse Bridge to cross the River Dove and reach their village burial grounds.
When a developer plans to deconsecrate the land by turning it into a parking lot for his resort cottages, bodies begin to litter the road to the Corpse Bridge.
Are these warnings to stay away from the sacred plots—or something much, much worse:
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Date
2014
Language
English
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Home is where the bodies lie in this crime thriller packed with nerve-jangling suspense and moody atmosphere from the award-winning author of Claws. The newspapers call them the Savages: a band of home invaders as merciless as they are stealthy. Usually they don't leave a clue—but this time, they've left a body. The first victim is found sprawled on her kitchen floor, blood soaking the terracotta tiles. Before long, another corpse is discovered,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Date
2014
Language
English
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An arsonist wreaks havoc in the English countryside as corpses pile up in this murder mystery featuring rival detectives. As wildfires ravage the Peak District's idyllic national park, hundreds of firefighters and park rangers fight to keep the blaze from reaching a historic inn, a landmark that has been boarded up for years. For weeks now, acts of arson have destroyed miles of land, and once the flames die down, a grim surprise awaits detectives...
8) Top Hard
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Publication Date
2011
Language
English
Description
As he watches criminals target a French lorry parked by the side of the road, Stones McClure thinks his plans might actually come together for once. He's looking forward to a life full of everything he could possibly want. Money, cars, a pair of fancy cowboy boots - who could ask for more? But things aren't always what they seem. And Stones should know it better than anyone.It's Nottinghamshire, England, in 1998. Derelict pits, decaying villages,...
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Publication Date
2018
Language
English
Description
How do you prove a murder without a body?
Ten years ago, Reece Bower was accused of killing his wife, a crime he always denied. Extensive police searches near his home in Bakewell found no trace of Annette Bower's remains, and the case against him collapsed.
But now memories of the original investigation have been resurrected for Detective Inspector Ben Cooper - because Reece Bower himself has disappeared, and his new wife wants answers.
Cooper...
10) Claws
Author
Publication Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A stunning landscape, a ruthless conflict... and one young police detective.On the wild moors of England's Dark Peak, a conflict has been raging for years. The discovery of an illegal haul from the bedroom of a terraced house is a clue to what might be at stake - not only the fate of local wildlife, but perhaps the entire future of one of the most prized landscapes in the Peak District National Park.Derbyshire police detective DC Ben Cooper, on assignment...
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Publication Date
2012
Language
English
Description
An award-winning psychological thriller from a leading British crime writer described by UK newspapers as "one of our best story tellers".DANCING WITH THE VIRGINS is the sequel to Stephen Booth's stunning debut BLACK DOG, which introduced young Derbyshire police detectives DC Ben Cooper and DS Diane Fry.In a remote part of England's Peak District stand the Nine Virgins, a ring of stones overshadowed by a dark legend. Now, as winter closes in, a tenth...
Author
Publication Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Guilt, sacrifice and redemption in a freezing Peak District winter feature in this tense psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of BLACK DOG and DANCING WITH THE VIRGINS.It wasn't the easiest way to commit suicide. Marie Tennent seems to have curled up in the freezing snow on Irontongue Hill and stayed there until her body was frosted over like a supermarket chicken.And hers isn't the only death the Derbyshire police have to contend with...
13) The Dead Place
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Publication Date
2012
Language
English
Description
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 the Derbyshire Police with talk of an imminent killing seems to be just another hoaxer. But DS Diane Fry begins to take him seriously when a woman is snatched from a multi-storey car park. This was no opportunist attack but a carefully planned abduction...
14) Scared to Live
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Publication Date
2012
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publication Date
2012
Language
English
Description
And as it grew dark, Withens became almost entirely silent. Except for the screaming.'It's nearly May Day, and deep in the Dark Peak lies the village of Withens. A young man has been killed - battered to death and left high on the desolate moors for the crows to find.Derbyshire detective DC Ben Cooper meets an impenetrable wall of silence from the man's relatives who form Withens' oldest family, the Oxleys, descendants of the first workers who tunnelled...
16) Black Dog
Author
Publication Date
2012
Language
English
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"Where Cooper stood was remote and isolated… but the smell that lingered under the trees was of blood."It's been a long, hot summer in England's beautiful Peak District national park. But summer comes to an end when the body of missing teenager Laura Vernon is found.For young police detective Ben Cooper, the work has just begun. His community is hiding a girl's killer, and a past as dark as the Derbyshire night. It seems Laura was the keeper of...
17) One Last Breath
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Publication Date
2012
Language
English
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The vast labyrinth of caverns, passages and subterranean rivers beneath the 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 visitors is a convicted killer, bent on revenge.Fourteen years ago Mansell Quinn was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his lover. Now he's out under licence, whereabouts unknown, and his ex-wife has been...
18) Secrets of Death
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Date
2017
Language
English
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For fans of Broadchurch, Louise Penny, and Peter Robinson comes a spellbinding new novel from internationally bestselling author Stephen Booth
Residents of the Peak District are used to tourists descending on its soaring hills and brooding valleys. However, this summer brings a different kind of visitor to the idyllic landscape, leaving behind bodies and secrets.
A series of suicides throughout the Peaks throws Detective
...19) Fall Down Dead
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Date
2019
Language
English
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The dramatic, gripping new Cooper & Fry crime thriller from bestseller Stephen Booth sees the stunning Peak District backdrop prove fatal for one walking party
They knew the danger, but they went anyway...
"Almost before she'd stopped breathing, a swirl of mist snaked across her legs and settled in her hair, clutching her in its chilly embrace, hiding her body from view. It would be hours before she
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