Blood on the Tongue (Paperback, New Ed)

Coming as the latest instalment in Stephen Booth's highly acclaimed and award-winning series of thrillers, this third tale based on the exploits of detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry has a lot to live up to. Already been lauded as the best in the series, it confirms Booth's ability to keep the reader hooked right up to the very last word. Like its predecessors it is set among the unforgiving Peak District, buried here under a claustrophobic blanket of several feet of snow. The bleak majesty of the landscape is brilliantly captured and lends a tension to the storyline and the unfolding relationships that seethe relentlessly just beneath the surface. Opening with a painfully slow and lonely death of a suicide victim whose 'tears had frozen her eyelids shut', the story then turns to the snow-choked streets of the far from aptly named town of Edendale. Cooper and Fry's inter-colleague rivalry is superbly realistic, and you can't help feel for the young detective when she ends up partnered with the slobbish Gavin Murfin, a man whose dietary exploits verge on the obscene. Around the central roles, a complex cast of three-dimensional characters with believable lives easily hold the reader's interest as they draw together the present day and the recent past. Murders, suicides and unsolved mysteries are gradually and convincingly woven together in and around the Derbyshire town as modern life's myriad issues are revealed to be more closely connected to Second World War England than would at first seem likely. In paying as much attention to the small details as he does to the main twists of the plot, Booth comes up with some real treats in this excellent thriller. (Kirkus UK)

Guilt, sacrifice and redemption in a freezing Derbyshire winter in this tense psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of 'Black Dog'. 'The sun had dropped over the edge of Irontongue Hill so that the snow-covered moor was in shadow ... but Marie Tennent would never see the dawn.' Marie's was not the only body lying undiscovered under the Peak District snow that January morning - nor the first. In 1945, the wreckage of a bomber was found on the Hill, full of dead crewmen. The missing pilot was declared responsible, but why would a decorated hero desert? The only other survivor refuses to talk. A young Canadian woman has arrived to uncover the truth - the pilot was her grandfather. DC Ben Cooper is intrigued. Perhaps he can help? To his boss DS Fry, investigating two frozen bodies found on the moors, her colleague's interest is entirely unprofessional. But the past has a way of influencing the present and before either knows it, a long-cold trail in the dead of winter has grown dangerously hot ...

General

Imprint:	HarperCollinsPublishers
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cooper and Fry Crime Series, Book 3
Release date:	April 2003
Authors:	Stephen Booth
Dimensions:	178 x 111 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Mass Market
Pages:	342
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-00-713066-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery > General
LSN:	0-00-713066-X
Barcode:	9780007130665

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