STEPHEN BOOTH

Ben Cooper and his team from Derbyshire Constabulary's E Division return in this gripping new page-turner from the master of the genre. For the Peak District hamlet of Shawhead, there's only one road in and one road out. Its handful of residents are accustomed to being cut off from the world by snow or floods. But when a lorry delivering animal feed is found jammed in the narrow lane, with no sign of the driver except for a blood-stained cab, it's the beginning of something much more sinister...'Booth skilfully portrays a stunning landscape with a dark heart that conceals secrets, vendettas and revenge.' Daily Mail on The Corpse Bridge

Una noche negra, una ventana de dormitorio abierta, y tres balas que cruzan la oscuridad. La víctima del ataque, tan dramático como incomprensible, es una inocente mujer de mediana edad. Pero la tranquila comunidad del condado de Derby está a punto de estremecerse con otro crimen atroz: a tan sólo unos kilómetros, las llamas consumen una casa y acaban con la vida de una joven madre y de sus dos hijos. El incendio parece premeditado. La sargento Fry y el detective Cooper intentan descubrir las razones que se esconden tras el asesinato de estos inocentes. La compleja investigación les llevará muy lejos del condado de Derby, los implicará hasta límites insospechados y dejará clara una cosa: nadie es totalmente inocente.

A May Bank Holiday in the Peak District is ruined when an eight year-old girl drowns among crowds of visitors in the tourist hotspot of Dovedale. For Detective Constable Ben Cooper - a helpless witness - the incident is not only traumatic, but it leads him to become involved in the tangled lives of the Neilds, the dead girl's family.

Stephen BoothFourteen years ago Mansell Quinn was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his lover. Now he's out under licence, whereabouts unknown, and his ex-wife has been murdered. As the son of the officer responsible for putting Quinn behind bars, Ben Cooper realizes his own life could be in danger.

Dark, intense and utterly compelling, 'Black Dog' was an extraordinary first novel from a writer who has rapidly become the most promising crime author to emerge in the genre in years. 'Where Cooper stood was remote and isolated! but the smell that lingered under the trees was of blood' The long hot Peak District summer came to an end when they found Laura Vernon's body. But for local policeman Ben Cooper the work has just begun. His community is hiding a young girl's killer and a past as dark as the Derbyshire night. It seems Laura was the keeper of secrets beyond her years and, in a case ...

Stephen BoothThe second in the series set in the Derbyshire Peak District, Dancing with the Virgins is a tense psychological follow-up to Stephen Booth's acclaimed debut, Black Dog. 'The body of the woman sprawled obscenely among the stones! She looked like a dead woman, dancing.' The ring of cairns known as the Nine Virgins has stood on the windswept moors of Derbyshire for centuries. Now, as winter closes in, a tenth figure is added - a body - and a modern tragedy is added to the dark legend that surrounds the stones. There's no shortage of suspects, each with their own guilty secret, but what DS Fry and DC Cooper lack is any kind of motive. As they search separately for answers, it seems the reasons for the strange behaviour of the moor's inhabitants may lie somewhere in the past, in a terrible crime yet to be discovered!

Bones where there should be none and a chilling warning of an imminent killing challenge Detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry in their sixth novel.

Stephen BoothWithens is a small village in the Peak District but its no idyll. Dark and dour its troubled by theft and vandalism mostly generated by local familyfromhell the Oxleys. Now it is the focus of a murder investigation a young mans 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...

Stephen BoothBut is a fifty-year-old mystery really the best use of police time? Or does a vicious attack in the dark Edendale backstreets prove that the trail's not quite as cold as he'd thought? Could the past be the only clue to present violence as an icy winter looks set to get even chillier?