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    Blind to the Bones: A Cooper & Fry Mystery

    By Stephen Booth

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    This taut, atmospheric thriller is perfect for fans of Patricia Cornwell and Peter James.

    A death in the family from hell brings detectives Fry and Cooper to a remote and unfriendly rural community in their fourth psychological thriller.

    “And as it grew dark, Withens became almost entirely silent. Except for the screaming.”

    A small village in the Peak District, Withens is troubled by theft and vandalism, mostly generated by a family of local delinquents, the Oxleys. Now the town is the focus of a murder investigation. A man’s body has been found on the bleak moors nearby, and the victim is an Oxley. To crack the case, DC Ben Cooper must break open the degenerate clan.

    His boss, DS Diane Fry, is also in Withens. Grim new evidence has turned up in the case of a missing student, but her parents refuse to believe she could be dead.

    The darkness in Withens’s heart is growing. And things are only going to get nastier …

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJan 7, 2014
    ISBN9780062301994
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    Blind to the Bones: 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
      Cooper and Fry...what interesting characters with insufferable personalities. The author seems to delight in portraying Cooper and Fry.as unlikable...yet they excel in getting the case solved. This one also has a great deal of history and geography of the area blended in beautifully with the storyline. One of the best aspects of this series is that the reader seldom has the murderer correct. So there is always mystery to these mysteries.
    • 4/5
      It has been a while since I listened to this audiobook, but for me it was one of his most memorable - the insular little village, the difficult local family, the oddly threatening male dancers - very good. And the missing college girl with her family in denial. I don't remember the resolution, but I remember the atmosphere. Definitely recommended.
    • 5/5
      Another great Ben Cooper, Diane Fry police novel set in the fictional Edendale in the Peak District.