Stephen Booth – författare

A special value for fans of Louise Penny and Peter Robinson—the first three unforgettable Cooper & Fry novels in one e-book: Black Dog, Dancing with the Virgins and Blood on the Tongue.

Black Dog: The search for beautiful, teenaged Laura Vernon is over when her body is found, mutilated, in the forest. Ben Cooper is on the case, and he's been paired with a new partner. Diane Fry is as tenacious as she is alluring. But the two must work together to apprehend a killer who is hiding in plain sight.

Dancing with the Virgins: As winter closes in on the moors, so does murder. The body of a young woman is found within a ring of ancient cairns and a second woman has been attacked, savagely wounded and severely traumatized…but alive. Cooper & Fry must unlock the memories trapped inside her mind before more blood is shed among the stones.

Blood on the Tongue: A New Year means new homicides to solve in the icy depths of a bitter January. A woman is found, dead, who seems to have curled up in the freezing snow and lain there until her heart stopped. Did she go willingly towards death or is there a more sinister explanation? Cooper & Fry are desperate to find the answers.

Warning: reading this bundle may result in an addiction to the mysteries of Cooper & Fry.

Invånarna i Peak District är vana vid att turister strövar omkring bland de böljande kullarna och vindlande dalarna. Men den här sommaren dyker en annan typ av besökare upp, och lämnar efter sig ett spår av döda kroppar och hemligheter.

En serie självmord i området kastar in kriminalkommissarie Ben Cooper och hans team i Derbyshire i en kapplöpning mot tiden för att hitta ett samband mellan till synes slumpartade handlingar. De har ingen chans att förutse var nästa kropp ska dyka upp. Samtidigt upptäcker Diane Fry vid polisen i Nottingham att ett nyckelvittne har försvunnit.

Vad är dödens mystiska hemligheter?

Och är det så att något av offren inte alls tog sitt eget liv?

Now a major TV series: COOPER AND FRY on Channel 5, starring Robert James-Collier (Downton Abbey) and Mandip Gill (Doctor Who)Master crime writer Stephen Booth ventures into the Peak District''s dark subterranean world for a brand new, stunning and gasp-inducing Cooper & Fry thriller.''A modern master''GuardianHow do you prove a murder without a body?Ten years ago, Reece Bower was accused of killing his wife, a crime he always denied. Extensive police searches near his home in Bakewell found no trace of Annette Bower''s remains, and the case against him collapsed.But now memories of the original investigation have been resurrected for Detective Inspector Ben Cooper - because Reece Bower himself has disappeared, and his new wife wants answers. Cooper can''t call on the Major Crime Unit and DS Diane Fry for help unless he can prove a murder took place - impossible without a body. As his search moves into the caves and abandoned mines in the isolated depths of Lathkilldale, the question is: who would want revenge for the death of Annette Bower?

''Dramatic . . . gripping''The TimesThe dramatic, gripping new Cooper & Fry crime thriller from bestseller Stephen Booth sees the stunning Peak District prove fatal for one walking party.They 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 most incredible views of the Peak District, but when thick fog descends there on a walking party led by enigmatic Darius Roth, this spectacular landscape is turned into a death trap that claims a life.For DI Ben Cooper however, something about the way Faith Matthew fell to her death suggests it was no accident, and he quickly discovers more than one of the hikers may have had reason to murder their companion.To make things worse, his old colleague DS Diane Fry finds herself at centre of an internal investigations storm that threatens to drag Cooper down with it. ''Makes high summer as terrifying as midwinter''Val McDermid''Crime writing at its finest''Daily Mail''A modern master''Guardian''A first rate mysterySunday Telegraph''Ingenious Plotting and richly atmospheric''Reginald Hill

Now a major TV series: COOPER AND FRY on Channel 5, starring Robert James-Collier (Downton Abbey) and Mandip Gill (Doctor Who)''This is crime writing of the highest quality''Daily MailSteeped in the atmosphere of the stunning Peak District, Secrets of Death is master crime writer Stephen Booth''s most daring and clever Cooper & Fry thriller yet.A beautiful place to die . . . 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 the next body will turn up. Meanwhile, in Nottingham Detective Sergeant Diane Fry finds a key witness has vanished... But what are the mysterious Secrets of Death? And is there one victim whose fate wasn''t suicide at all?''Makes high summer as terrifying as midwinter''Val McDermid''A modern master''Guardian''A first rate mysterySunday Telegraph''Ingenious Plotting and richly atmospheric''Reginald Hill

Some sins won't wash away . . .

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 Fry is a reluctant temporary replacement, but now their makeshift team is about to be tested to the limit. The fatal events of one damp August night are likely to remain shrouded in mystery if they can't track down a car glimpsed only as a dark outline in the rain by a passerby.

When the drops turn into a deluge, loyalties among the officers will be put under intolerable strain as they try to solve their toughest case yet. And that's before it emerges that Detective Cooper is not at home recuperating, but has vanished into thin air . . .

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 dead...What links the three deaths? Where are the missing bodies? Who is responsible - and how do the raging fires fit in? For Cooper and his rival DI Diane Fry, it''s the most twisted investigation of their lives... and with an ingenious killer pulling the strings, it could also be their last.Drenched in atmosphere and danger, Stephen Booth''s relentless new thriller builds to a shock finale that will catch even the most seasoned suspense readers off guard.

''A modern master''GuardianBen Cooper and his team from Derbyshire Constabulary''s E Division return in this gripping new page-turner from the master of the genre.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... ''Booth skilfully portrays a stunning landscape with a dark heart that conceals secrets, vendettas and revenge''Daily Mail ''Makes high summer as terrifying as midwinter''Val McDermid''A first rate mysterySunday Telegraph''Ingenious Plotting and richly atmospheric''Reginald Hill