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Lost River (Paperback)
Stephen Booth
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On a rain-swept hillside, hounds from the local foxhunt discover
the body of a well-dressed man. At that exact moment, an anonymous
caller reports the same body . . . lying half a mile away.
It's only the first in a series of baffling clues as Ben Cooper
and Diane Fry--partners and rivals on the detective force --plunge
into a case involving horses, spectacular wealth, and a mysterious
"plague village" where a centuries-old outbreak of Black Death has
been transformed into a modern tourist attraction.
As the spring rain falls and the body count rises, Cooper and
Fry's investigation twists back to the recent past. A killer lurks
in the shadows there--a killer now hiding in plain sight . . .
Atmospheric and ingenious, packed with suspense and secrets, The
Kill Call is an unforgettable thriller from an unforgettable
writer.
Set in and around the dark, misty canals of Lichfield, Stephen
Booth's incredible new novel is awash with mystery. When council
officer Chris Buckley is approached by an odd old man demanding
help in healing a decades-old family rift, he sends the stranger
away. But then the old man is murdered, and the police arrive on
the Chris's doorstep asking questions to which he has no answers.
As Chris begins to look into the circumstances of the murder, he
uncovers a deadly secret in the silt and mud of the local canals
that he'll realise was better kept buried. PRAISE FOR STEPHEN BOOTH
'Makes high summer as terrifying as midwinter' Val McDermid 'A
modern master' Guardian 'Crime writing of the finest quality' Daily
Mail 'Ingenious plotting and richly atmospheric' Reginald Hill 'A
first-rate mystery' Sunday Telegraph
Dealing mainly with the works of William Shakespeare, the essays in
Close Readings without Readings reflect Stephen Booth's lifelong
interest in uncovering the ways great literature works upon
readers. As the book's title suggests, the author does not aim to
create new or novel interpretations or to uncover the political
agendas of literary works, but to notice language
patterns-repetitions, analogies, correspondences, echoes,
overtones-and other ways in which the choice and the arrangement of
words affect readers. For Booth, close reading is a practice of
attentiveness. He notices how, why, and in what ways Shakespeare's
works affect his readers. Whether readers agree with the premises
of a literary work or not, they subject themselves, knowingly or
not, to its effects. For Booth, what we value in literature is the
experience. He has devoted his own work to recognizing the nature,
process, and functions of reading literature, and to teaching
others to do the same. Recent years have seen Booth's efforts
recognized by volumes dedicated both to close reading and to his
achievements as editor, scholar, critic, and teacher.
Dealing mainly with the works of William Shakespeare, the essays in
Close Readings without Readings reflect Stephen Booth's lifelong
interest in uncovering the ways great literature works upon
readers. As the book's title suggests, the author does not aim to
create new or novel interpretations or to uncover the political
agendas of literary works, but to notice language
patterns-repetitions, analogies, correspondences, echoes,
overtones-and other ways in which the choice and the arrangement of
words affect readers. For Booth, close reading is a practice of
attentiveness. He notices how, why, and in what ways Shakespeare's
works affect his readers. Whether readers agree with the premises
of a literary work or not, they subject themselves, knowingly or
not, to its effects. For Booth, what we value in literature is the
experience. He has devoted his own work to recognizing the nature,
process, and functions of reading literature, and to teaching
others to do the same. Recent years have seen Booth's efforts
recognized by volumes dedicated both to close reading and to his
achievements as editor, scholar, critic, and teacher.
This volume, examining the ways in which Shakespeare's plays are
designed for hearers as well as spectators, has been prompted by
recent explorations of the auditory dimension of early modern drama
by such scholars as Andrew Gurr, Bruce Smith, and James Hirsh. To
look at the dynamics of hearing in Shakespeare's plays involves a
paradigm shift that changes how we understand virtually everything
about them, from the architecture of the buildings, to playing
spaces, to blocking, and to larger interpretative issues, including
our understanding of character based on players' responses to what
they hear, mishear, or refuse to hear. Who Hears in Shakespeare?
Auditory Worlds on Stage and Screen is comprised of three sections
on Shakespeare's texts and performance history: "The Poetics of
Hearing and the Early Modern Stage"; "Metahearing: Hearing,
Knowing, and Audiences, Onstage and Off"; and "Transhearing:
Hearing, Whispering, Overhearing, and Eavesdropping in Film and
Other Media." Chapters by noted scholars explore the complex
reactions and interactions of onstage and offstage audiences and
show how Shakespearean stagecraft, actualized on stage and adapted
on screen, revolves around various situations and conventions of
hearing-soliloquies,, asides, avesdropping, overhearing, and stage
whispers. In short, Who Hears in Shakespeare? enunciates
Shakespeare's nuanced, powerful stagecraft of hearing. The volume
ends with Stephen Booth's afterword, his inspiring meditation on
hearing that considers Shakespearean "audiences" and their
responses to what they hear-or don't hear-in Shakespeare's plays.
An atmospheric new Fry and Cooper thriller for fans of Peter
Robinson and Reginald Hill. On a rain-swept Derbyshire moor, hounds
from the local foxhunt find the body of a well-dressed man whose
head has been crushed. Yet an anonymous caller reports the same
body lying half a mile away. Called in to investigate the
discovery, detectives DS Diane Fry and DC Ben Cooper become
entangled in the violent world of hunting and hunt saboteurs, horse
theft and a little-known sector of the meat trade. As Fry follows a
complex trail of her own to unravel the shady business interests of
the murder victim, Cooper realizes that the answer to the case
might lie deep in the past. History is everywhere around him in the
Peak District landscape - particularly in the 'plague village' of
Eyam, where an outbreak of Black Death has been turned into a
modern-day tourist attraction. But, even as the final solution is
revealed, both Fry and Cooper find themselves having to face up to
the disturbing reality of the much more recent past.
Set in and around the dark, misty canals of Lichfield, Stephen
Booth's incredible new novel is awash with mystery. When council
officer Chris Buckley is approached by an odd old man demanding
help in healing a decades-old family rift, he sends the stranger
away. But then the old man is murdered, and the police arrive on
the Chris's doorstep asking questions to which he has no answers.
As Chris begins to look into the circumstances of the murder, he
uncovers a deadly secret in the silt and mud of the local canals
that he'll realise was better kept buried. PRAISE FOR STEPHEN BOOTH
'Makes high summer as terrifying as midwinter' Val McDermid 'A
modern master' Guardian 'Crime writing of the finest quality' Daily
Mail 'Ingenious plotting and richly atmospheric' Reginald Hill 'A
first-rate mystery' Sunday Telegraph
A dark psychological thriller featuring Diane Fry and Ben Cooper,
in which a small community is ripped apart by arson and murder.
'Ingenious plotting and richly atmospheric' - Reginald Hill. An
assassination in the night - an open window and three bullets from
the darkness - the victim a harmless middle-aged woman. But can she
really be quite as innocent as she seems? The death of Rose
Shepherd swarms with questions - unlike the deaths of a woman and
her two children in a house fire. A tragedy, yes, but an everyday
one. Then DS Fry discovers a link between the two cases, a link
that crosses the borders between nations, between right and wrong,
between madness and sanity. She and Ben Cooper discover why some
people are scared to live - and others are fated to die...
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Lost River (Paperback)
Stephen Booth
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An atmospheric new Fry and Cooper thriller for fans of Peter
Robinson and Reginald Hill A May Bank Holiday in the Peak District
is ruined by the tragic drowning of an eight-year-old girl in
picturesque Dovedale. For Detective Constable Ben Cooper, a
helpless witness to the tragedy, the incident is not only
traumatic, but leads him to become involved in the tangled lives of
the Neilds, the dead girl's family. As he gets to know them, Cooper
begins to suspect that one of them is harbouring a secret - a
secret that the whole family might be willing to cover up.
Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Diane Fry has a journey of her own to
make - a journey back to her roots. As she finds herself drawn into
an investigation of her own among the inner-city streets of
Birmingham, Fry realises there is only one person she can rely on
to provide the help she needs. But that man is Ben Cooper, and he's
back in Derbyshire, where his suspicions are leading him towards a
shocking discovery on the banks of another Peak District river.
The 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...
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 where no-one is innocent, everyone is a suspect. But
Cooper's local knowledge and instincts are about to face an even
greater challenge. The ambitious DC Diane Fry has been called in
from another division, a woman as ruthless as she is attractive...
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 ...
Set in and around the dark, misty canals of Lichfield, Stephen
Booth's incredible new novel is awash with mystery. When council
officer Chris Buckley is approached by an odd old man demanding
help in healing a decades-old family rift, he sends the stranger
away. But then the old man is murdered, and the police arrive on
the Chris's doorstep asking questions to which he has no answers.
As Chris begins to look into the circumstances of the murder, he
uncovers a deadly secret in the silt and mud of the local canals
that he'll realise was better kept buried. PRAISE FOR STEPHEN BOOTH
'Makes high summer as terrifying as midwinter' Val McDermid 'A
modern master' Guardian 'Crime writing of the finest quality' Daily
Mail 'Ingenious plotting and richly atmospheric' Reginald Hill 'A
first-rate mystery' Sunday Telegraph
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...
An escaped convict threatens more than the summer tourist trade in
the gripping fifth thriller featuring Detectives Fry and Cooper.
'Today was the day Detective Constable Ben Cooper was supposed to
have died. For practical purposes, he was already dead.' Fourteen
years ago Mansell Quinn was jailed for murdering his mistress. Now
he has escaped and is on the run, hiding amongst the Peak
District's many summer tourists. When Quinn's ex-wife is found
dead, DC Cooper and his tough boss DS Fry suspect it is only a
matter of time before another victim is found. And Cooper - as the
son of Quinn's arresting officer - is high on the list. As they
desperately search the case files for clues and the death toll
rises, darker possibilities emerge. Are the killings the work of a
deranged killer who cannot be found - or a desperate man, wrongly
convicted?
LOST RIVER is the 10th novel in the multiple award-winning Cooper
& Fry series, set in England's beautiful and atmospheric Peak
District. A number 17 Sunday Times bestseller in the UK. A May Bank
Holiday in the Peak District is ruined by the tragic drowning of an
eight-year-old girl in picturesque Dovedale. For Detective
Constable Ben Cooper, a helpless witness to the tragedy, the
incident is not only traumatic, but leads him to become involved in
the tangled lives of the Nields, the dead girl's family. As he gets
to know them, Cooper begins to suspect that one of them is
harbouring a secret - a secret that the whole family might be
willing to cover up. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Diane Fry has a
journey of her own to make - a journey back to her roots. As she
finds herself drawn into an investigation of her own among the
inner-city streets of Birmingham, Fry realises there is only one
person she can rely on to provide the help she needs. But that man
is Ben Cooper, and he's back in Derbyshire, where his suspicions
are leading him towards a shocking discovery on the banks of
another Peak District river. PRAISE FOR THE COOPER AND FRY SERIES:
"Suspenseful and supremely engaging. Booth does a wonderful job." -
Los Angeles Times "Simultaneously classic, contemporary and
haunting." - Otto Penzler, Mysterious Bookshop, New York "Makes
high summer in Derbyshire as dark and terrifying as midwinter." -
Val McDermid, award-winning crime novelist "Intelligent and
substantive crime fiction, rich with complex characters." - Library
Journal "Booth has firmly joined the elite of Britain's top mystery
writers." - Florida Sun-Sentinel "Crime fiction for the thinking
man or woman, and damnably hard to put down." - January Magazine
"Highly recommended - a great series " - Seattle Mystery Books "Ben
Cooper and Diane Fry are the most interesting team to arrive on the
mystery scene in a long while." - Rocky Mountain News "One of our
best story tellers." - Sunday Telegraph "There are few, if any,
contemporary writers who do this as well as Stephen Booth." - Arena
magazine "Booth delivers some of the best crime fiction in the UK."
- Manchester Evening News "Booth's aim is to portray the darkness
below the surface... in this he succeeds wonderfully well." - Mark
Billingham, crime novelist "If you read only one new crime writer
this year, he's your man." - Yorkshire Post
'Dramatic . . . gripping' The Times The dramatic, gripping new
Cooper & Fry crime thriller from bestseller Stephen Booth sees
the stunning Peak District prove fatal for one walking party. They
knew the danger, but they went anyway... "Almost before she'd
stopped breathing, a swirl of mist snaked across her legs and
settled in her hair, clutching her in its chilly embrace, hiding
her body from view. It would be hours before she was found." The
mountain of Kinder Scout offers the most incredible views of the
Peak District, but when thick fog descends there on a walking party
led by enigmatic Darius Roth, this spectacular landscape is turned
into a death trap that claims a life. For DI Ben Cooper however,
something about the way Faith Matthew fell to her death suggests it
was no accident, and he quickly discovers more than one of the
hikers may have had reason to murder their companion. To make
things worse, his old colleague DS Diane Fry finds herself at
centre of an internal investigations storm that threatens to drag
Cooper down with it. 'Makes high summer as terrifying as midwinter'
Val McDermid 'Crime writing at its finest' Daily Mail 'A modern
master' Guardian 'A first rate mystery Sunday Telegraph 'Ingenious
Plotting and richly atmospheric' Reginald Hill
Master crime writer Stephen Booth ventures into the Peak District's
dark subterranean world for a brand new, stunning and gasp-inducing
Cooper & Fry thriller. 'A modern master' Guardian How do you
prove a murder without a body? Ten years ago, Reece Bower was
accused of killing his wife, a crime he always denied. Extensive
police searches near his home in Bakewell found no trace of Annette
Bower's remains, and the case against him collapsed. But now
memories of the original investigation have been resurrected for
Detective Inspector Ben Cooper - because Reece Bower himself has
disappeared, and his new wife wants answers. Cooper can't call on
the Major Crime Unit and DS Diane Fry for help unless he can prove
a murder took place - impossible without a body. As his search
moves into the caves and abandoned mines in the isolated depths of
Lathkilldale, the question is: who would want revenge for the death
of Annette Bower?
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