Stephen Booth, Author . Scribner $24 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7432-1690-6
After an atmospheric beginning, Booth settles down to a lengthy investigation marked by long stretches of unrelieved tedium in his second crime novel (after 2000's Black Dog). On Ringham Moor, in a remote area of England, a prehistoric ring of...
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Stephen Booth, Author . Scribner $24 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3618-8
The overworked police of Edendale (England) face their greatest challenge yet in Booth's outstanding third mystery (after 2001's Dancing with the Virgins). Det. Constable Ben Cooper, young, dedicated, diffident and thoroughly unorthodox, and
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Stephen Booth, Author . Scribner $25 (425p) ISBN 978-0-7432-3796-3
Set in a damp English village on the midland moors, Booth's fourth suspense novel is a moody, meandering tale, bringing back the two police protagonists of Blood on the Tongue and Dancing with the Virgins. Det. Constable Ben Cooper has just been
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Stephen Booth, Author . Bantam $25 (406p) ISBN 978-0-385-33905-6
British author Booth's fifth crime novel (after Blind to the Bones
) is as dark and winding as the labyrinth of caves below its Derbyshire setting. In 1990, Det. Constable Ben Cooper's father arrests Mansell Quinn for the brutal murder of...
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Stephen Booth, Author . Bantam $25 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-33906-3
In the sixth circuitously plotted police procedural from British author Booth (after One Last Breath
), Det. Constable Ben Cooper and his boss, Sgt. Diane Fry, pursue a possible serial killer who leaves haunting phone messages—about impending...
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Stephen Booth, Author . Bantam $25 (419p) ISBN 978-0-385-33907-0
Two gruesome homicides preoccupy Det. Sgt. Diane Fry and Det. Constable Ben Cooper in Booth's ambitious seventh police procedural (after The Dead Place
). In England's Peak district, Fry looks into a suspicious house fire that killed...
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Stephen Booth, Author Scribner Book Company $24 (352p) ISBN 978-0-684-87301-5
The cryptic activities of eccentric, uncooperative murder suspect Harry Dickinson add depth to this intriguing first-time offering, a psychological suspense story from a British journalist. Dickinson is one of a triad of macabre old men who haunt...
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Stephen Booth. Sphere (IPG, dist.), $10.95 trade paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-7515-4564-7
In Booth’s accomplished 11th novel featuring Det. Sgt. Ben Cooper and Det. Sgt. Diane Fry (after 2010’s Lost River), a gang of burglars dubbed “the Savages” by the media has been robbing homes in the rural Peak District, using violence when...
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