Stephen Booth
1) Dying To Sin
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Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
SEP 2007
Description
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 far 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...
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Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry hope that the anonymous phone calls promising that the "perfect" murder will be committed soon are only pranks, but when a woman goes missing and another turns up dead, they know they must solve the case before he strikes again.
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Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2006
Description
This twisted thrill ride is perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Peter James.
Around the ancient cave system in Derbyshire are thronging tourists, a medieval castle, and the thriving town of Castleton. With its underground tunnels and caverns, it's the perfect place for a man to hide-or vanish. Detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry are looking for such a man, one who is on a murderous rampage.
An escaped convict is on the loose, and, after thirteen...
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Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Detective Constable Ben Cooper and Detective Sergeant Diane Fry must uncover the secrets of two grim murder scenes in Englands Peak Districtone inexplicableand the other unspeakable. How do you investigate the murder of a woman without a life? That is the challenge facing Cooper and Fry when a reclusive agoraphobic is found shot to death in her home by someone who took an exceptional amount of care in executing her murder. With no friends, no family,...
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Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 9
Pub. Date
2009
Description
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...
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Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
"A tense psychological thriller, the sequel to Stephen Booth's stunning debut BLACK DOG, featuring young Derbyshire police detectives Ben Cooper and 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 figure is added to the circle - the body of Jenny Weston is discovered, her limbs arranged so she appears to be dancing. Weeks earlier another...
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Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2000
Description
When teenager Laura Vernon goes missing during a hot summer in the Peak District, local policd mount a full-scale search. But it's retired miner Harry Dickinson who finally discovers Laura's body, and he seems determined to obstruct the investigation. Ben Cooper, a young D.C. has known the villagers all his life, but his instinctive feelings about the case are called into question by the arrival of Diane Fry, a ruthlessly ambitious detective from...
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Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Detective Sergeant Diane Fry's latest case involves three bodies that have suddenly appeared on her doorstep, as she and her colleague, Detective Constable Ben Cooper, follow a trail that could lead back to World War II.
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Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
"Something sinister is happening on the desolate moors of England's Peak District. The villagers of Withens are dying. Nineteen-year-old Emma Renshaw disappeared two years ago. Her body has never been found, and her parents still cling to the hope that she may be alive. Now, Neil Granger, one of Emma's former housemates, has been killed in a particularly grotesque way. What was Neil doing out on the moor by the deserted, rat-filled railway tunnel...
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Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"A summer of endless rain in the Peak District leaves the officers of Derbyshire's criminal investigation department with a problem. They have discovered a man's body lying in shallow water, but torrential downpours have swollen the rivers and flooded the roads, making travel difficult and forensic examination impossible. And that's not all. The absence of Detective Cooper, on extended leave after an arson attack, has left a serious gap. Detective...
