Combining the qualities of Reginald Hill, Minette Walters and Barbara Vine, Black Dog is an amazingly assured and impressive debut thriller from the most promising new author to emerge in the genre in recent years.
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.
Harry Dickinson finds the body, but what instincts make him so bent on obstructing the police investigation into Laura’s murder? And what do he and his two fellow retired lead miners find to talk about on those long, balmy nights in the pub, hunched over their game of dominoes?
Graham Vernon is a man who knows all about secrets, and the police are at a loss to understand the attitude of this powerful businessman and his glamorous wife to their precious daughter. The Vernons are holding something back. But what could be more important than the discovery of Laura’s brutal murderer?
Ben Cooper, a young DC living with tragedy, 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 DC from another division. As Ben and Diane take the first steps in a complicated dance of suspicion, attraction and frustration, they discover that to understand the present, they must also understand the past – and in a world where no one is entirely innocent, pain and suffering can be the only outcome.
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Book Description Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Very Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Trade paperback original. Very fine in pictorial wrappers. The author's first mystery and the first book in the series featuring local DC Ben Cooper and newcomer DC Diane Fry, set in England's Peak District. Text block is tight with no loose or dog-eared pages. Bubble wrapped, boxed, and shipped with USPS Tracking (USA only). Seller Inventory # 000344
Book Description paperback. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 231105198
Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. As new, unread. First edition, first printing. SIGNED by author on title page. First in the Cooper/Fry series; set in UK. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 001761
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Book is new, unread. Signed on the title page by Booth. First edition, first printing. Cooper & Fry vol. 1. This is a trade paperback which predates the U.S. hardcover version. There is no British hardcover. Booth won The Barry Awards Best British Crime Novel Award for Black Dog in 2001. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 000825