Blind to the Bones (Cooper and Fry Crime Series, Book 4) - Rilegato

Booth, Stephen

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ISBN 10: 0007130651 ISBN 13: 9780007130658

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2003

Riassunto

A death in the rural family-from-hell bring Fry and Cooper to a remote and unfriendly community in the fourth psychological Peak District thriller.

It's nearly May Day and deep in the Dark Peak lies the village of Withens. Not a tranquil place but one troubled by theft, vandalism, strange disappearances and now murder. A young man is killed – battered to death and left high on the desolate moors for the crows to find.

Ben Cooper, part of the investigating team, meets an impenetrable wall of silence from the man's relatives who form Withens' oldest family. The Oxleys are descendants of the first workers who tunnelled beneath the Peak. They stick to their own area, pass on secret knowledge through the generations, and guard their traditions from outsiders.

Detective Diane Fry is in Withens on other business – looking into the disappearance of Emma Renshaw. The student vanished into thin air two years ago, but her parents are convinced she is still alive and act accordingly...which doesn't help Fry in her efforts to re-open the case following an ominous discovery in remote countryside.

But there are other secrets in Withens and more violence to come...The past is stretching its shadow over the present, not just for the inhabitants of Withens but for Cooper and Fry as well.

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Recensione:

Praise for Stephen Booth:
‘Stephen Booth creates a fine sense of place and atmosphere ... the unguessable solution to the crime comes as a real surprise’ Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph

‘The complex relationship between [Cooper and Fry] is excellently drawn, and is combined with an intriguing plot and a real sense of place: Stephen Booth is an author to keep an eye on’ T J Binyon, Evening Standard

‘In this atmospheric debut, Stephen Booth makes high summer in Derbyshire as dark and terrifying as midwinter’ Val McDermid

‘Black Dog sinks its teeth into you and doesn’t let go ... A dark star may be born!’ Reginald Hill

L'autore:

Stephen Booth is a journalist. This is the fourth novel in his series set in the Peak District, and follows on from the success of Dancing with the Virgins, and his widely acclaimed debut Black Dog.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0007130651
• ISBN 13: 9780007130658
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 480