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Author
Series
Cooper and Fry volume 3
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
It's a new year for Ben Cooper and Diane Fry, and that means new mysteries to solve in the icy depths of a bitter winter. 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 no one to observe her death but the foxes and the hares. Yet she is riddled with bruises. Her demise is horrifying. Is it also suspicious? When two more bodies are...
2) Black dog
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The disappearance of a fifteen-year-old girl and subsequent discovery of a decayed body in the woods draw Detective Constable Ben Cooper into a strange murder investigation.
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...
4) Lost river
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
This atmospheric thriller is perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson A holiday weekend is ruined by a drowning in a picturesque village. The incident not only traumatizes Detective Cooper, a helpless witness to the tragedy, but leads him to become involved in the tangled lives of the victim's family. As he gets to know them, Cooper begins to suspect that one of them is harboring a secret that the whole family is desperate to cover up. Meanwhile,...
5) Already dead
Author
Series
Publisher
Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A summer of endless rain in the Peak District leaves the officers of Derbyshire's criminal investigation department with a problem. They have discovered a man's body lying in shallow water, but torrential downpours have swollen the rivers and flooded the roads, making travel difficult and forensic examination impossible. And that's not all. The absence of Detective Cooper, on extended leave after an arson attack, has left a serious gap. Detective...
6) Dying to sin
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
You never know what you might uncover ... This chilling procedural is perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Peter James. While digging the foundation for the conversion of an old farmyard into upscale stables, builders unearth a human hand preserved in clay.Suddenly suspicious, the police explore further and find not one body, but two. To crack a case that's even colder than the ground, detectives Cooper and Fry must look into the past of the eerily...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
On a rain-swept hillside, hounds from the local foxhunt discover the body of a well-dressed man. At that exact moment, an anonymous caller reports the same body . . . lying half a mile away. It's only the first in a series of baffling clues as Ben Cooperand Diane Fry'partners and rivals on the detective force 'plunge into a case involving horses, spectacular wealth, and a mysterious "plague village" where a centuries-old outbreak of Black Death has...
10) The dead place
Author
Series
Ben Cooper and Diane Fry mysteries volume 6
Language
English
Description
"'Soon there will be a killing. Close your eyes and breathe in the aroma. I can smell it right now, can't you? So powerful, so sweet. So irresistible. It's the scent of death& The anonymous caller who taunts the Derbyshire Police with talk of an imminent killing seems to be just another hoaxer. But DS Diane Fry begins to take him seriously when a woman is snatched from a multi-storey car park. It's possible the chilling voice is telling the truth...
11) Secrets of death
Author
Series
Cooper and Fry mystery volume 16
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
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
As winter closes in on the moors, so does death. The body of a young woman is found within a ring of ancient cairns, her arms and legs arranged to look as though she's dancing. Now another young woman has been found, savagely wounded and severely traumatized, but alive. Ben Cooper and Diane Fry must unlock the memories trapped inside her mind before more blood is shed amongst the stones.
Author
Language
English
Description
The villagers of Withens are dying. Emma Renshaw vanished two years ago, her body never found. Now her former housemate has been bludgeoned, his remains discovered near a deserted railway tunnel. Is there a link between the two? While Detective Seargeant Diane Fry focuses on Emma's possible murder, her colleague Ben Cooper investigates a series of burglaries. Only one family seems exempt: the Oxleys. Descended from workmen who built the ancient tunnels...
14) The murder road
Author
Series
Cooper and Fry volume 15
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.
15) Dead and buried
Author
Series
Publisher
Sphere
Language
English
Description
"Brutal acts of firestarting have ravaged the Peak District, and now a new wave of moorland infernos sweeps across the national park. For DS Ben Cooper, the blazes are best left to the firefighters, even with the arsonists still at large. But when an intruder breaks into an abandoned pub, Cooper is on the case--and he swiftly unearths a pair of grim surprises. The first is evidence of a years-old double homicide, and the second is a corpse, newly...
16) One last breath
Author
Language
English
Description
In England's tourist-laden Peak District, Detective Constable Ben Cooper and his partner, Diane Fry, search for a convicted killer bent on the ultimate revenge who is hiding in one of the region's many caves.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Miss Pongleton is found murdered on the stairs of Belsize Park station, her fellow-boarders in the Frampton Hotel are not overwhelmed with grief at the death of a tiresome old woman. But they all have their theories about the identity of the murderer, and help to unravel the mystery of who killed the wealthy Pongle . Several of her fellow residents even Tuppy the terrier have a part to play in the events that lead to a dramatic arrest. This classic...
Author
Series
Publisher
Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
For centuries, mourners in Derbyshire have used the Corpse Bridge to cross the River Dove and reach their village burial grounds. When a developer plans to deconsecrate the land by turning it into a parking lot for his resort cottages, bodies begin to litter the road to the Corpse Bridge. Are these warnings to stay away from the sacred plots--or something much, much worse: a terrifying serial killer at work?
20) The devil's edge
Author
Series
Publisher
Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublisher
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When a band of home invaders known as Savages escalate to murder, detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry must track down the killers, but a twisted game is in play, a game more ruthless than the detectives can imagine.
