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The Cooper & Fry series IN ORDER:
1. BLACK DOG
2. DANCING WITH THE VIRGINS
3. BLOOD ON THE TONGUE
4. BLIND TO THE BONES
5. ONE LAST BREATH
6. THE DEAD PLACE
7. SCARED TO LIVE
8. DYING TO SIN
9. THE KILL CALL
10. LOST RIVER
11. THE DEVIL'S EDGE
12. DEAD AND BURIED
13. ALREADY DEAD
14. THE CORPSE BRIDGE
15. THE MURDER ROAD
16. SECRETS OF DEATH
17. DEAD IN THE DARK
18. FALL DOWN DEAD
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.
"Black Dog sinks its
teeth into you and doesn't let you go. A dark star is born!" - Reginald
Hill
"Classic, contemporary - and
haunting." - Otto Penzler, Mysterious Bookshop, New York
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Djevel-hunden
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CAINELE
NEGRU
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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
WINNER of a Bloody Dagger Award for Best Mystery Novel
RUNNER-UP in the Reviewers' Choice Awards for Best First Mystery
NAMED one of the best six crime novels of 2000 by the London Evening Standard
A
TOP 25 UK
paperback fiction debut
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Amazon.com Hot 100 bestseller in the USA
A NUMBER 1 Barnes & Noble Nook bestseller
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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
"Convoluted, suspenseful, and supremely engaging." - Los Angeles Times
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NI JOMFRUER
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FINALIST for the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel
NAMED Best
Crime Fiction of 2001 by The Independent
A
NUMBER 3 crime and mystery bestseller for Amazon.co.uk
A NUMBER 5 bestseller
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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
service of a powerful, well plotted story." -
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FINALIST
for
the 2003 Sherlock Award for Best Detective created by a British author (for DC
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
AN Amazon.co.uk Hot 100 bestseller
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
"There are few, if any, contemporary writers who do
this as well as Stephen Booth."
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WINNER of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award 2003
NOMINATED for the Theakston's UK Crime Novel of the Year Award 2005
A
UK Top 50 bestseller in paperback
NUMBER 1 hardback
bestseller for the
NUMBER
8 bestseller for the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association (USA)
AN Amazon.co.uk Hot 100 bestseller
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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...
"Underlines Booth's status as one of our best story-tellers." - Sunday Telegraph
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Henkays vain
A FINALIST
for the
Theakston's UK Crime Novel of the Year Award 2006
A
NUMBER 18 Sunday Times bestseller in UK hardback
A NUMBER 5 paperback bestseller in Canada
CHOSEN for the 'Borrowers Recommend' promotion in March 2005 - "150,000
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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…
SCARED TO LIVE is published in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand by HarperCollins
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AV
MÖRKRET
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VIVIR
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DE
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A NUMBER 18 Sunday Times bestseller in UK hardback
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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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POR PECAR
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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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TOQUE DA MORTE
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A May Bank Holiday in the 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 Nields, the dead
girl's family.
As he gets to know them, Cooper begins to suspect that one of them is
harbouring a secret – one that the whole family might be willing to cover
up.
Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Diane Fry has a journey to make – a journey
back to her roots. As she finds herself drawn into an investigation of her own
among the inner city streets of Birmingham, Fry realises there is only one
person she can rely on to provide the help she needs. But that man is Ben Cooper, and he's back in Derbyshire, where his suspicions are
leading him towards a shocking discovery on the banks of another Peak
District river.
LOST RIVER is published in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand by HarperCollins
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A NUMBER 17 Sunday Times bestseller in UK hardback
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THE
DEVIL'S EDGE
In
his most gripping case yet, newly promoted Detective Sergeant Ben Cooper
investigates a series of lethal home invasions in the Peak District.
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Brutal acts of firestarting have ravaged the Peak District, and now a new wave of moorland infernos sweeps across the national park. For DS Ben Cooper, the blazes are best left to the firefighters, even with the arsonists still at large.
But when an intruder breaks into an abandoned pub, Cooper is on the case - and he swiftly unearths a pair of grim surprises. The first is evidence of a years-old double homicide. And the second is a corpse, newly dead...
What links the three deaths? Where are the missing bodies? Who is responsible - and how do the raging fires fit in? For Cooper and his rival DI Diane Fry, it's the most twisted investigation of their lives... and with an ingenious killer pulling the strings, it could also be their last.
Drenched in atmosphere and danger, Stephen Booth's relentless new thriller builds to a shock finale that will catch even the most seasoned suspense readers off guard.
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A summer of endless rain in the Peak District leaves the officers of Derbyshire's CID with a problem. They have discovered a man's body lying in shallow water, but torrential rain has swollen the rivers and flooded the roads, making travel difficult and forensic examination impossible.
And that's not all. The absence of DS Ben Cooper, on extended leave after an arson attack, has left a serious gap. DS Diane Fry is a reluctant temporary replacement, but now their makeshift team is about to be tested to the limit. The fatal events of one damp August night are likely to remain shrouded in mystery if they can't track down a car glimpsed only as a dark outline in the rain by a passer-by.
As the rain turns into a deluge, loyalties among the officers will be put under intolerable strain as they try to solve their toughest case yet. And that's before it emerges that Ben Cooper is not at home, but has vanished into thin air...
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The old Corpse Bridge is the route taken for centuries by mourners from villages on the western fringes of Derbyshire to a burial ground across the River Dove, now absorbed into the landscaped parkland of a stately home.
When Earl Manby, the landowner, announces plans to deconsecrate the burial ground to turn it into a car park for his holiday cottages, bodies begin to appear once again on the road to the Corpse Bridge. Is there a connection with the Earl's plans? Or worse, is there a terrifying serial killer at work?
Back in his job after the traumatic events of previous months, Detective Sergeant Ben Cooper knows that he must unravel the mystery of the Corpse Bridge if he's going to be able to move on with his life.
As the pressure builds, Ben doesn't know who he can trust and, when the case reaches breaking point, he has to make a call that could put everything - and everyone - at risk...
THE CORPSE BRIDGE is published in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand by Little, Brown
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NUMBER 17 Sunday Times bestseller in UK hardback
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THE
MURDER ROAD
THE MURDER ROAD explores the consequences on a tiny Peak District community when a lorry which becomes jammed under a railway bridge is found to have a blood-stained cab and a missing driver.
For residents in the hamlet of Shawhead, there's only one way in and one way out. And some of them may never go out at all. When murder is suspected in the case of the missing driver, Detective Inspector Ben Cooper is on the scene with his team from Derbyshire E Division. But the one person who may hold the answers to the mystery is found hanging from a walkway high over the river in the nearby town of New Mills.
With the arrival of a new sergeant, Cooper is unsure of his position in E Division. So who will he turn to when his case takes a dramatic turn?
"An impeccable police
procedural with a touch of class." - Maxim Jakubowksi (Love Reading).
THE MURDER ROAD is published in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand by Little, Brown
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There’s always a right time and place to die.
The tourist hotspots of England’s Peak District are attracting a different kind of visitor this summer – people who have decided it’s a good place to meet their deaths. A series of suicides throughout the Peaks throws Detective Inspector Ben Cooper and his team in Derbyshire’s ‘E’ Division into a race against time, with no way of predicting where the next body will turn up.
Meanwhile, in the nearby city of Nottingham, Detective Sergeant Diane Fry of the Major Crime Unit discovers that a major suspect has vanished.
But what connection can there be between the seemingly ordinary people who have chosen the Peak District as the location to end their lives? And is there one among them whose fate wasn’t suicide at all? And what are the mysterious Secrets of Death?
Forced to work together with Diane Fry once more, DI Ben Cooper soon discovers that behind every death, there are always secrets to be revealed.
"One of his best books to date. Do not hesitate to pick it up and devour it!"
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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 can't call on the Major Crime Unit and DS Diane Fry for help unless he can prove a murder took place - impossible without a body.
As his search moves into the caves and abandoned mines in the isolated depths of Lathkilldale, the question is: who would want revenge for the death of Annette Bower?
"Clever, beautifully written and superbly plotted, this is an entertaining page-turner with a compelling twist in the tail." - Lancashire Evening Post
DEAD IN THE DARK is published in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand by Little, Brown
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A UK TOP 50 bestseller in paperback
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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 was found."
The mountain of Kinder Scout offers incredible views of the Peak District, but when thick fog descends there on a walking party led by enigmatic Darius Roth, this spectacular landscape is turned into a death trap that claims a life.
For DI Ben Cooper however, something about the way Faith Matthew fell to her death suggests it was no accident, and he quickly discovers more than one of the hikers may have had reason to murder their companion.
To make things worse, his old colleague DS Diane Fry finds herself at centre of an internal investigations storm that threatens to drag Cooper down with it.
"The master of this territory." - Sunday Express
FALL DOWN DEAD is published in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand by Little, Brown
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