The Kill Call (Cooper & Fry) - Softcover

Booth, Professor Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0957237987 ISBN 13: 9780957237988

Publisher: Westlea Books, 2012

Synopsis

THE KILL CALL is the 9th novel in the multiple award-winning Cooper & Fry series.

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 999 caller reports the same body lying half a mile away.

Called in to investigate the discovery, E Division 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 realises 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.

"Booth does a wonderful job." - Los Angeles Times

"Simultaneously classic, contemporary and haunting." - Mysterious Bookshop, New York

"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 is a modern master of rural noir." - The Guardian

"Booth delivers some of the best crime fiction in the UK." - Manchester Evening News

"If you read only one new crime writer this year, he's your man." - Yorkshire Post

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen Booth is a multiple award winning British crime writer. He is best known as the creator of two young Derbyshire police detectives, DC Ben Cooper and DS Diane Fry, who have appeared in twelve novels, all set in England's beautiful and atmospheric Peak District. Stephen has been a Gold Dagger finalist, an Anthony Award nominee, twice winner of a Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel, and twice shortlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year. DC Cooper was a finalist for the Sherlock Award for the best detective created by a British author, and in 2003 the Crime Writers' Association presented Stephen with the Dagger in the Library Award for 'the author whose books have given readers the most pleasure'. The Cooper & Fry series is published all around the world, and has been translated into 15 languages. The latest titles are THE DEVIL'S EDGE and DEAD AND BURIED. A former newspaper journalist, Stephen was born in Lancashire in the North West of England. He lives in a Georgian dower house in Nottinghamshire with his wife Lesley, three cats and one goat. His website is at: http://www.stephen-booth.com

Review:

“Intelligent and substantive crime fiction, rich with complex characters.” (Library Journal)

“Suspenseful and supremely engaging. Booth does a wonderful job.” (Los Angeles Times)

“Clever, intricate . . . Cooper is an ascendant Lewis to Fry’s bitter Morse.” (Financial Times)

“Ben Cooper and Diane Fry are the most interesting crime team to arrive on the mystery scene in a long while.” (Rocky Mountain News)

“A modern master of rural noir.” (The Guardian)

“Booth delivers some of the best crime fiction in the UK.” (Manchester Evening News)

“Booth’s aim is to portray the darkness that lies beneath the surface . . . in this he succeeds wonderfully well.”— (Daily Mail (London))

“Ingenious plotting and richly atmospheric.” (Reginald Hill)

About this edition

• Publisher: Westlea Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0957237987
• ISBN 13: 9780957237988
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384