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Author
Series
Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"This killing will be a model of perfection. An accomplishment to be proud of. And it could be tonight or maybe next week. But it will be soon. I promise."
The anonymous phone calls indicate a disturbed mind with an unnatural passion for death. Cooper and Fry are hoping against hope that the caller is just a harmless crank having some sick fun. But the clues woven through his disturbing messages point to the possibility of an all-too-real crime …...
Author
Series
Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 9
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
On a rain-swept Derbyshire moor, hounds from the local hunt find the body of a well-dressed man whose head has been crushed. Then an anonymous caller reports the same body lying half a mile away.
3) Lost river
Author
Series
Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 10
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A May Bank Holiday in the Peak District is ruined by the tragic drowning of an eight-year-old girl among crowds of visitors in the tourist hotspot of Dovedale.
Author
Series
Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
How do you investigate the murder of a woman without a life? That is the challenge facing Cooper and Fry when a reclusive agoraphobic is found shot to death in her home. With no friends, no family, and virtually no contact with the outside world, the dead woman may simply have been the unlucky victim of a random homicide.
At virtually the same time, a raging house fire claims the lives of a young mother and two of her children. But as the debris...
Author
Series
Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
This taut, atmospheric thriller is perfect for fans of Patricia Cornwell and Peter James.
A death in the family from hell brings 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 a family of local delinquents,...
Author
Series
Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 12
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
As moorland fires sweep across the Peak District National Park, hundreds of firefighters and park rangers battle to prevent flames reaching a remote inn, once a famous landmark but now abandoned and boarded up. The blaze is just one of a series of random acts of arson which have destroyed miles of heather moorland -- and once the flames have died, a grim surprise awaits DS Ben Cooper and DI Diane Fry: a body -- dead for years.
Author
Series
Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In their most gripping, relentlessly suspenseful case ever, Detective Constable Ben Cooper and Detective Sergeant Diane Fry investigate a series of terrifying and lethal home invasions in the Peak District.
Author
Series
Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
This twisted thrill ride is perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Peter James.
Around the ancient cave system in Derbyshire are thronging tourists, a medieval castle, and the thriving town of Castleton. With its underground tunnels and caverns, it's the perfect place for a man to hide-or vanish. Detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry are looking for such a man, one who is on a murderous rampage.
An escaped convict is on the loose, and, after thirteen...
Author
Series
Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
For the Peak District hamlet of Shawhead, there's only one road in and one road out. Its handful of residents are accustomed to being cut off from the world by snow or floods. But when a lorry delivering animal feed is found jammed in the narrow lane, with no sign of the driver except for a blood-stained cab, it's the beginning of something much more sinister.
10) Secrets of death
Author
Series
Publisher
Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Residents of the Peak District are used to tourists descending on its soaring hills and brooding valleys. However, this summer brings a different kind of visitor to the idyllic landscape, leaving behind bodies and secrets. A series of suicides throughout the Peaks throws Detective Inspector Ben Cooper and his team in Derbyshire's E Division into a race against time to find a connection to these seemingly random acts - with no way of predicting where...
Author
Series
Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Blood on the Tongue is a complex, atmospheric police procedural perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson.
It's a new year for Peak District detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry, and that means new murders to solve in the icy depths of a bitter winter in Edendale, Derbyshire.
It isn't the easiest way to commit suicide, but the dead woman seems to have simply curled up in the freezing snow and lain there until her heart stopped. There was...
12) Fall down dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Witness Impulse
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The dramatic, gripping new Cooper & Fry crime thriller from bestseller Stephen Booth sees the stunning Peak District backdrop prove fatal for one walking partyThey 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...
13) Dead in the dark
Author
Series
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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...
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