I read this book at a totally leisurely pace and enjoyed every bit of it. The topics, though a little morbid-ish (horse-meat?), were intriguing; I found myself completely engrossed (like always) especially by Cooper's part of the investigation: the Cold War, the Black Plague, that overwhelming pr...
Usually I love the Cooper/Fry series but for some reason, this book didn't do it for me. As per usual, the two don't interact much but there's a definite underlying need for each other (not in *that* way, professionally). Cooper is investigating the drowning death of a young girl, one he tried ...
First Line: On the day the first woman died, Mark Roper had radio trouble.In a remote area of the Peaks District in England, a prehistoric ring of stones called the Nine Virgins witnesses the brutal murder of a young cyclist. When Detective Constable Ben Cooper and Detective Sergeant Diane Fry le...
#7 Ben Cooper/Diane Fry police procedural mystery set in the Peak District of the UK. Two major cases are plaguing the local cop shop--a house fire that killed a mother and her two children, determined later to be arson, and thus murder, and the professional-style killing of a sixty-ish reclusiv...
RATING: 4.5The snow is falling heavily on the hills of the Peak District. The beauty of the scene is deceptive, as the area is truly a killing field. During World War II, at least 30 airplanes crashed here, and their remains have been left to this day as a silent memorial. And now, suffering a...
http://libriscogitare.blogspot.pt/201...Inserido na categoria de policial, este livro de Stephen Booth foi a leitura que me acompanhou ao longo de quase duas semanas.Ossos relata a busca por uma jovem desaparecida há dois anos e a resolução de um assassínio sangrento em Withens, uma pacata locali...
RATING: 3.25Although not given to pursuing wild goose chases, Detective Sergeant Diane Fry is spending a lot of time trying to nail down the disturbed individual who is making anonymous calls with promises of murders to come, and providing intellectually obscure clues that have to do with "the de...
I've been enjoying Stephen Booth's Cooper and Fry series from the beginning. Set in England's picturesque, but menacing, Peak District the series is both typical and untypical of the classic British police procedural. The main characters, Ben Cooper and Diane Fry, are officers who often work tog...
He was no longer the slightly dishevelled innocent with the scuffed leather jacket and a crooked tie. He had matured, filled out and smartened himself up. They said what didn’t kill you made you stronger. Cooper had come through his recent problems looking as if he could cope with anything. Promo...
And what did he mean by ‘over and over again’?Edge just laughed even more when he saw her expression.‘Team building,’ he said.‘What?’‘We were taking part in a team building exercise at the weekend. They took us to a place up in the north of the county. It’s an enormous site, with all kinds of act...
My neighbours? You know what? I wouldn’t lift a finger to help those people. If I saw their house being burgled, I wouldn’t bother to phone the police. In fact, I’d help the thieves load up their swag myself.’Cooper was looking at Richard Nowak’s large, powerful hands. They were gripping a glass ...
Not any more.’ In the sitting room, Fry began to open the drawers of a small dresser, her gloved fingers moving through the contents. Some CDs, spare batteries, a pair of gloves. Luke Irvine was examining a desktop PC on a table in the corner. Was Tarrant the type to send a lot of emails? She dou...
They appeared on Twitter feeds for the police and BBC Radio Derby, and were soon all over the internet. Detectives wanted to hear from anyone who’d been in an area of the Upper Dove Valley last night near a location known as Hollins Bridge. When Cooper heard the appeal, he realised the press offi...