Blind to the Bones - Softcover

Booth, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440242908 ISBN 13: 9780440242901

Publisher: Bantam Books, 2006

Synopsis

The villagers of Withens are dying. Emma Renshaw vanished two years ago, her body never found. Now her former housemate has been bludgeoned, his remains discovered near a deserted railway tunnel. Is there a link between the two?

While Detective Sergeant Diane Fry focuses on Emma’s possible murder, her colleague Ben Cooper investigates a series of burglaries. Only one family seems exempt: the Oxleys. Descended from workmen who built the ancient tunnels beneath the village, they stick close to their own–and keep their secrets closer. Caught in the tangle of death and deception are Cooper and Fry. Their personal history and professional relationship have blurred before, and will again, as their cases converge in the most unsettling ways. . . .

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Review:

Praise for Blind to the Bones:

‘He has got better with each book. This is another very fine book, masterfully plotted and filled with real flesh-and-blood personalities’ Daily Telegraph

‘Another of Booth’s fine Derbyshire mysteries’ Scotsman

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

‘Stephen Booth makes high summer in Derbyshire as dark and terrifying as midwinter’ Val McDermid

‘A dark star may be born!’ Reginald Hill

'A leading light of British crime writing' Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian

From the Publisher:

Withens is a small village in the Peak District, but it s no idyll. Dark and dour, it s troubled by theft and vandalism, mostly generated by local family-from-hell, the Oxleys. Now it is the focus of a murder investigation a young man s body has been found on the desolate moors nearby, and the man is an Oxley.

DC Ben Cooper is trying to crack the case and to do that he must crack this clannish family. On top of that, his difficult boss, Detective Diane Fry, is also in Withens on business one Emma Renshaw, a student who vanished two years ago. Some ominous new evidence relating to Emma has turned up, but her parents are convinced she is still alive and act accordingly and very strangely. So, with one murder and one as yet unsolved disappearance, Withens reputation for grimness is growing. And it looks like things are only going to get darker

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0440242908
• ISBN 13: 9780440242901
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 581