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    Dancing With the Virgins: A Cooper & Fry Mystery

    By Stephen Booth

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    Dancing With the Virgins is an atmospheric, psychological stunner—perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson.

    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 . . .

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 5, 2013
    ISBN9780062302014
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    Dancing With the Virgins: A Cooper & Fry Mystery
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    Stephen Booth

    Stephen Booth's fourteen novels featuring Cooper and Fry, all to be published by Witness, have sold over half a million copies around the world.

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    • 5/5
      Book DescriptionThe second in the series set in the Derbyshire Peak District, Dancing with the Virgins is a tense psychological follow-up to Stephen Booth's acclaimed debut Black Dog. 'The body of the woman sprawled obscenely among the stones... She looked like a dead woman, dancing.' The ring of cairns known as the Nine Virgins has stood on the windswept moors of Derbyshire for centuries. Now, as winter closes in, a tenth figure is added - a body - and a modern tragedy is added to the dark legend that surrounds the stones. There's no shortage of suspects, each with their own guilty secret, but what DS Fry and DC Cooper lack is any kind of motive. As they search separately for answers, it seems the reasons for the strange behavior of the moor's inhabitants may lie somewhere in the past, in a terrible crime yet to be discovered...My ReviewI love Stephen Booth's writing. His great sense of place (Derbyshire's Peak District) and vivid descriptions make me feel like I am right there as I read his books. The complex plotting unfolds with lots of twists and turns that makes the book hard to put down. His strong character development, even for the minor characters, is what keeps me reading his books. The tension between Cooper and Fry is really heating up and I can't wait to see if a relationship is in store for them. I am now looking forward to reading the 3rd book in the series very shortly. I would highly recommend this series to those who love excellent writing and vivid descriptions with their murder mysteries.
    • 3/5
      Pleasant but not as interesting as the first one in the series. The local characters were there, and your heart wrung for some of them, especially the kids put on a bus near the end. The story revolved around women being attacked on the moor near a collection of strange stones, and what brought the women to the area in the first place. I am writing the review 2 days later and can hardly remember or care who the culprit was though...
    • 4/5
      Interesting second book of a series about two police officers in the Peak District. Lots of description of the area, lots of local color and legends, and a pretty good mystery to boot.
    • 2/5
      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 learn that another woman was attacked by an assailant with a knife less than half a mile from the Nine Virgins, they feel they've found the start of a pattern that needs to be stopped immediately.After enjoying the first book in the series, Black Dog, I expected to settle down to another good read, and Dancing With the Virgins did start well. Author Stephen Booth is a master of the atmospheric setting of the Peaks District-- making it appear both beautiful and menacing-- and his two main characters are finely drawn. However, I had several major problems with this book.Those very same main characters that I'm getting to know so well are rubbing my fur the wrong way. Diane Fry is the Queen of Not-Letting-Anyone-Get-Close. She realizes this but doesn't know what to do about it... or if she even wants to do anything about it. She's so prickly that, no matter what anyone does, they put their foot in it. I may understand some of her motivations, but after a while prickly gets old, and I begin to wish that she could remain civil to everyone for one entire hour.Ben Cooper, on the other hand, is the opposite of Diane Fry. Where Diane Fry sees black or white, everything is in shades of grey to Ben Cooper. He has a difficult time saying no to anyone and seems to want to be all things to all people. As a result, he seems frozen in place at times.The pacing of the book was glacial and came very close to being a Did Not Finish for me. The first substantive clue for the main murder occurred on page 380 of a 528-page book. The culprits for this were the many subplots that sucked all the life out of the investigation into the murder of the cyclist. Besides the murder, there were plot threads involving child pornography, illegal dog fighting, a corrupt cop, two young homeless men camped out in a broken-down van, domestic violence, a young park ranger learning the ropes... and others. If there'd been fewer subplots, I think things would've moved a bit faster and the book would've held my interest.As it stands, Dancing With the Virgins just didn't work for me. I do have the third book in the series here, and I will read it. But it will be a while before I pick it up.
    • 3/5
      A murder mystery set in the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire. Quite interesting but not one of the best I've read.
    • 3/5
      More bloodshed on the moors for Cooper & Fry to investigate.