Blind to the Bones (Cooper and Fry Crime Series, Book 4)

Description

Brilliant new psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of Black Dog and Blood on the Tongue. Withens is a small village in the Peak District, but it's no idyll. Dark and dour, it's troubled by theft and vandalism, mostly generated by local family-from-hell, the Oxleys. Now it is the focus of a murder investigation -- a young man's body has been found on the desolate moors nearby, and the man is an Oxley. DC Ben Cooper is trying to crack the case and to do that he must crack this clannish family. On top of that, his difficult boss, Detective Diane Fry, is also in Withens on business -- one Emma Renshaw, a student who vanished two years ago. Some ominous new evidence relating to Emma has turned up, but her parents are convinced she is still alive and act accordingly -- and very strangely. So, with one murder and one as yet unsolved disappearance, Withens' reputation for grimness is growing. And it looks like things are only going to get darker...

Stephen Booth is a journalist. This is his sixth novel in his Peak District series featuring Ben Cooper and Diane Fry.

Praise for Blind to the Bones: 'He has got better with each book. This is another very fine book, masterfully plotted and filled with real flesh-and-blood personalities' Daily Telegraph 'Another of Booth's fine Derbyshire mysteries' Scotsman Praise for Stephen Booth: 'Stephen Booth creates a fine sense of place and atmosphere ! the unguessable solution to the crime comes as a real surprise' Sunday Telegraph 'The complex relationship between [Cooper and Fry] is excellently drawn, and is combined with an intriguing plot and a real sense of place: Stephen Booth is an author to keep an eye on' Evening Standard 'Stephen Booth makes high summer in Derbyshire as dark and terrifying as midwinter' Val McDermid 'A dark star may be born!' Reginald Hill 'A leading light of British crime writing' Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian