Blind to the Bones (Paperback, New ed)

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...

General

Imprint:	HarperCollinsPublishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cooper and Fry Crime Series, Book 4
Release date:	April 2004
Authors:	Stephen Booth
Dimensions:	177 x 111 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Mass Market
Pages:	632
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-00-713067-2
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery > General
LSN:	0-00-713067-8
Barcode:	9780007130672

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