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Blind to the Bones (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Cooper and Fry Crime Series, Book 4
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This is another of Booth's darkly atmospheric tales set in the Peak
District and featuring young detectives Diane Fry and Ben Cooper.
In this fourth book of the series the pair are called to the
desolate moorland village of Withens where death is stalking the
windblown streets. There is also the mystery of missing student
Emma Renshaw, and the bizarre make-believe world inhabited by her
parents. Chuck in the spooky Oxley family who have passed on arcane
knowledge through the generations, and you have the ingredients for
a whodunnit with murkier depths than most. It is this depth that
has marked out Stephen Booth's previous novels in the series, two
of which won the Barry Award at the World Mystery Convention in
America. The evocative setting of Booth's stories helps give them a
brooding feel that verges on the Gothic, although the characters of
Fry and Cooper are as down-to-earth and thoroughly human as those
in the TV series Heartbeat, and the dialogue is northern gritty.
Even so, those undercurrents of previous times keep emerging,
especially in this latest tale where the Oxley family seem to have
knowledge of past violence that has been preserved in the most
unlikely of ways - one that could never go before a jury. And when
DC Cooper tries to learn some of the Oxleys' secrets, he is
confronted by a surliness that itself comes close to menace. Booth
has created a set of characters and a setting that are immediately
appealing, but best of all he has the ability to tell a story in a
new and distinctive tone of voice. He has another winner here.
(Kirkus UK)
A death in the family-from-hell bring Detectives Fry and Cooper to
a remote and unfriendly rural community in their fourth
psychological thriller. 'And as it grew dark, Withens became almost
entirely silent. Except for the screaming.' A small village in the
Peak District, Withens is troubled by theft and vandalism, mostly
generated by local family-from-hell, the Oxleys. Now it is the
focus of a murder investigation - a man's body has been found on
the bleak moors nearby, and the man is an Oxley. To crack the case,
DC Ben Cooper must break open the delinquent clan. His boss, DS
Diane Fry, is also in Withens. Grim new evidence has turned up in
the case of a missing student but her parents refuse to believe she
could be dead. The darkness in Withens's heart is growing. And
things are only going to get nastier...
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