Dying to Sin (Cooper & Fry)
Language: English
Published by Westlea Books, 2012
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- Title
- Dying to Sin (Cooper & Fry)
- Author
- Booth, Professor Stephen
- Publisher
- Westlea Books
- Publication year
- 2012
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0957237979
- ISBN 13
- 9780957237971
- Series
- Book 8 of 18: Cooper & Fry Mysteries
When builder's labourer Danny Ward is asked to dig the foundations for a new wall during the conversion of Pity Wood Farm, he doesn't expect to find a human hand preserved in the clay. And when the police arrive to dig up the farmyard, they don't expect to find not one body, but two – with several years between their burials.
DS Diane Fry and DC Ben Cooper are part of the Derbyshire CID team tasked with piecing together the lives of the Sutton family who owned the farm before it was sold for development. Why would a pair of elderly brothers have the dead bodies of two women concealed on their property? And how do you even start tracking down decades of itinerant farm workers who might be able to cast light on the mystery?
Fry and Cooper have only the fragmentary memories of local people to rely on, including the landlord of the Dog Inn, the retired village bobby, and a handful of scattered neighbours in the White Peak settlement of Rakedale.
Their enquiry coincides with the arrival in Edendale of a new Detective Superintendent, and the threat of more shake-ups in 'E' Division CID that might separate Cooper and Fry permanently.
As Cooper becomes convinced that there ought to be a third body to provide the vital link and explain the burials at Pity Wood, Fry struggles to come to terms with one of the more unusual rural beliefs she's encountered so far - the magical properties of preserved body parts.
"Booth does a wonderful job." - Los Angeles Times
"Simultaneously classic, contemporary and haunting." - Mysterious Bookshop, New York
"Intelligent and substantive crime fiction, rich with complex characters." - Library Journal
"Booth has firmly joined the elite of Britain's top mystery writers." - Florida Sun-Sentinel
"Crime fiction for the thinking man or woman, and damnably hard to put down." - January Magazine
"Highly recommended - a great series!" - Seattle Mystery Books
"Ben Cooper and Diane Fry are the most interesting team to arrive on the mystery scene in a long while." - Rocky Mountain News
"One of our best story tellers." - Sunday Telegraph
"There are few, if any, contemporary writers who do this as well as Stephen Booth." - Arena magazine
"Booth is a modern master of rural noir." - The Guardian
"Booth delivers some of the best crime fiction in the UK." - Manchester Evening News
"If you read only one new crime writer this year, he's your man." - Yorkshire Post
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Review
Praise for 'Scared to Live' (HB):
'It's easy to see why Stephen Booth's novels are so popular. The Peak District's 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
'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
'A leading light of British crime writing.' Guardian
'Best crime novel of the year.' Independent
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