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Scared to Live (Paperback)

by Stephen Booth (Author)
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  • Paperback: 640 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; New edition edition (5 Feb 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007172109
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007172108
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11.2 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 27,566 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Praise for 'Scared to Live': 'It's easy to see why Stephen Booth's novels are so popular. The awesome scenery is an ideal background for a murder or two; he has developed his two principal characters into rounded personalities and he always gives them an intriguing mystery to investigate.' Sunday Telegraph 'A modern master of rural noir.' Guardian 'Booth's aim is to portray the darkness that lies below the surface! in this he succeeds wonderfully well.' Mark Billingham, Daily Mail 'Ingenious plotting and richly atmospheric.' Reginald Hill Praise for Stephen Booth: 'Stephen Booth creates a fine sense of place and atmosphere ! the unguessable solution to the crime comes as a real surprise.' Sunday Telegraph 'The complex relationship between [Cooper and Fry] is excellently drawn, and is combined with an intriguing plot and a real sense of place: Stephen Booth is an author to keep an eye on.' Evening Standard 'A leading light of British crime writing.' Guardian 'In this atmospheric debut, Stephen Booth makes high summer in Derbyshire as dark and terrifying as midwinter.' Val McDermid "Black Dog' sinks its teeth into you and doesn't let go ! A dark star may be born!' Reginald Hill

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24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Oh dear - the lure of TV or Film?, 13 Mar 2007
By Mr. Stephen Edwards "se1955" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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Booth's Peak District crime novels, featuring Sergeant Diane Fry and Constable Ben Cooper, have, until now, been a fine series, notable for both good characterisation, and an identification with the gritty realities of rural life and it's small-time crime.
In Scared to Live, however, that's all been lost in what appears to be a bid for a more TV or film friendly format. Now we have mysterious Eastern European gangsters, assassinations, staged chases through crowded firework displays and deserted car-parks, dramatic gypsy women - all in and around Matlock...........
It is inevitable that any crime novel series tied to a particular town or area will run the danger of turning it's locale into one of the most dangerous places on earth, but until now, Mr.Booth appeared to avoiding that mistake.
Scared to Live has a plot which manages to stretch even the strange, but accepted, conventions of it's genre. The characters have slipped into shallow ciphers, and the twist at the end would, in my opinion, be an insult to any police force.
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26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Superior Crime Yarn, 4 Oct 2006
By Mappi (Midlands, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Scared to Live (Hardcover)
Absolutely nothing wrong with this book and it will appeal to fans of Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson - superior crime novels with repeating characters using location.

This is the seventh in a series that has been coming out at a rate of one per year. It doesnt matter too much if you haven't read the series - as I hadn't - although I enjoyed it enough to order the 1st book and will work my way through.

Set in the Peak District and using location to good effect - it tells the investigation into two incidents - the murder of a harmless, reclusive old lady and three deaths in the same family in a house fire.

What seemed unusual for a crime novel is that you are just as much in the dark as the detectives for the first 300 or so pages. There is no story apart from the investigation itself.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 2 May 2007
By Thomas Downs (Brisbane, Queensland Australia) - See all my reviews
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I have read all of Stephen Booth's previous Peak District novels and I enjoy the atmosphere he creates and the the way his main characters interact. But he seems to me to be always guilty of putting in rather more detail than necessary on surroundings and people's thoughts. This novel is no exception and would have benefitted from the culling of thirty or forty pages worth of unnecessary detail. This would have made the narrative tighter and more gripping. An example is a frantic chase towards the end of the story where the tension is suddenly suspended by nearly two pages of description of a room the chaser is running through.
The story itself is intriguing enough, but in the end the motives for the crimes committed are not particularly compelling. And a major twist at the very end is both silly and unnecessary.
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1.0 out of 5 stars utter dross
This is the first and last Stephen Booth book I shall buy. It was so boring, dull and tedious that I gave up a third of the way through and put it in the charity bag. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Demelza

2.0 out of 5 stars I struggled with this one
I'd never read anything of Stephen Booth's before and thought this looked promising - four suspicious deaths (one of them especially in very mysterious circumstances) within the... Read more
Published 10 months ago by P. Smith

1.0 out of 5 stars Awful
This is a very bad book. Poor in every way, including the worst way - it is downright dull. It is boring, uninteresting and I found it a real chore to get through. Read more
Published 13 months ago by G. Moss

4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad but not his best
I enjoyed the first half of this book more than the latter. I think the best thing about Stephen Booth's novels is the very English-ness of them and the ordinary, person next door... Read more
Published 14 months ago by crime reader

4.0 out of 5 stars An Exciting Read

A newspaper and magazine journalist for over 25 years, Stephen Booth was born in the English Pennine town of Burnley. Read more
Published 23 months ago by J. Chippindale

3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad but disappointing
To a large degree I share the previous reviewer's disappointment with this book. I have been a huge fan of Booth since his first book, having felt that in all his books, notably... Read more
Published on 9 April 2007 by C. Knowles

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