Black Dog
Published on 5. March 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
530 pages
978-0-00-651432-9 (ISBN)
Description
COMING SOON TO TV: COOPER AND FRY, starring Robert James-Collier (Downton Abbey) and Mandip Gill (Doctor Who)
Dark, intense and utterly compelling, Black Dog is first in the gripping Cooper and Fry detective series
'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...
Dark, intense and utterly compelling, Black Dog is first in the gripping Cooper and Fry detective series
'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...
Reviews / Votes
'Stephen Booth's 'Black Dog'sinks its teeth into you and doesn't let you go. A dark star may be born!'Reginald Hill
'In this atmospheric debut, Stephen Booth makes high summer in Derbyshire as dark and terrifying as midwinter'
Val McDermid
'An exceedingly good first novel: wholly engrossing, it has well-drawn characters and a real sense of place'
Evening Standard
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Paperback (UK-A)
Dimensions
Height: 180 mm
Width: 113 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
259 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-00-651432-9 (9780006514329)
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Person
Stephen Booth was born in the Lancashire mill town of Burnley and has remained rooted to the Pennines during his career as a newspaper journalist. He lives with his wife Lesley in a former Georgian Dower house in Nottinghamshire and his interests include folklore, the Internet and walking in the hills of the Peak District. 'Black Dog' is his first novel.