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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' Susanna Yager, 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' T J Binyon, Evening Standard '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
This is another of Booth's darkly atmospheric tales set in the Peak District and featuring young detectives Diane Fry and Ben Cooper. In this fourth book of the series the pair are called to the desolate moorland village of Withens where death is stalking the windblown streets. There is also the mystery of missing student Emma Renshaw, and the bizarre make-believe world inhabited by her parents. Chuck in the spooky Oxley family who have passed on arcane knowledge through the generations, and you have the ingredients for a whodunnit with murkier depths than most. It is this depth that has marked out Stephen Booth's previous novels in the series, two of which won the Barry Award at the World Mystery Convention in America. The evocative setting of Booth's stories helps give them a brooding feel that verges on the Gothic, although the characters of Fry and Cooper are as down-to-earth and thoroughly human as those in the TV series Heartbeat, and the dialogue is northern gritty. Even so, those undercurrents of previous times keep emerging, especially in this latest tale where the Oxley family seem to have knowledge of past violence that has been preserved in the most unlikely of ways - one that could never go before a jury. And when DC Cooper tries to learn some of the Oxleys' secrets, he is confronted by a surliness that itself comes close to menace. Booth has created a set of characters and a setting that are immediately appealing, but best of all he has the ability to tell a story in a new and distinctive tone of voice. He has another winner here. (Kirkus UK)
Unsolved murders are just the beginning of this bleak, perplexing tapestry of menace. In their fourth outing (Blood on the Tongue, 2002, etc.), British investigative odd couple Diane Fry and Ben Cooper are dispatched to the remote moorland village of Withens to assure Sarah and Howard Renshaw that everything possible is being done to find their missing daughter, Emma. The unofficial but commonly held police belief is that 19-year-old Emma, who's been missing for two years, was murdered. The Renshaws, however, live in a state of perpetual anticipation, speaking of their daughter in the present tense and expecting her imminent return home. The Renshaws' vigil is only one of Withens's many oddities. Fires occur randomly and without warning. The night air is regularly fouled not only by smoke but by random, unexplained screams. Many locals suspect that both these phenomena are the work o
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' Susanna Yager, 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' T J Binyon, Evening Standard '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
This is another of Booth's darkly atmospheric tales set in the Peak District and featuring young detectives Diane Fry and Ben Cooper. In this fourth book of the series the pair are called to the desolate moorland village of Withens where death is stalking the windblown streets. There is also the mystery of missing student Emma Renshaw, and the bizarre make-believe world inhabited by her parents. Chuck in the spooky Oxley family who have passed on arcane knowledge through the generations, and you have the ingredients for a whodunnit with murkier depths than most. It is this depth that has marked out Stephen Booth's previous novels in the series, two of which won the Barry Award at the World Mystery Convention in America. The evocative setting of Booth's stories helps give them a brooding feel that verges on the Gothic, although the characters of Fry and Cooper are as down-to-earth and thoroughly human as those in the TV series Heartbeat, and the dialogue is northern gritty. Even so, those undercurrents of previous times keep emerging, especially in this latest tale where the Oxley family seem to have knowledge of past violence that has been preserved in the most unlikely of ways - one that could never go before a jury. And when DC Cooper tries to learn some of the Oxleys' secrets, he is confronted by a surliness that itself comes close to menace. Booth has created a set of characters and a setting that are immediately appealing, but best of all he has the ability to tell a story in a new and distinctive tone of voice. He has another winner here. (Kirkus UK)
Unsolved murders are just the beginning of this bleak, perplexing tapestry of menace. In their fourth outing (Blood on the Tongue, 2002, etc.), British investigative odd couple Diane Fry and Ben Cooper are dispatched to the remote moorland village of Withens to assure Sarah and Howard Renshaw that everything possible is being done to find their missing daughter, Emma. The unofficial but commonly held police belief is that 19-year-old Emma, who's been missing for two years, was murdered. The Renshaws, however, live in a state of perpetual anticipation, speaking of their daughter in the present tense and expecting her imminent return home. The Renshaws' vigil is only one of Withens's many oddities. Fires occur randomly and without warning. The night air is regularly fouled not only by smoke but by random, unexplained screams. Many locals suspect that both these phenomena are the work o