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by Stephen Booth

Author:	Stephen Booth
Subcategory:	Mystery
Language:	English
Publisher:	Scribner; 1 edition (October 1, 2002)
Pages:	387 pages
Category:	Suspense and Mystery
Rating:	4.4
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Stephen Booth won the Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel and was nominated for an Anthony Award for his first Ben Cooper/Diane Fry psychological thriller, Black Dog. His second book, Dancing with the Virgins, also received a nomination for the Barry as well as for Britain's top crime-writing award, the Gold Dagger. Acclaimed by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, the two books have so far been translated into German, French, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, and Japanese. Booth also won the 1999 Lichfield Prize for an unpublished work of fiction

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Stephen Booth is a journalist. Blood on the Tongue is the third 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. Библиографические данные. Blood on the Tongue (Cooper and Fry Crime Series, Book 3) Cooper and Fry Crime Series (Том 3). Автор.

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First published in Great Britain. in 2002 by Collins Crime. ISBN 0 00 713628 5. For Eric Jefferson.

Blood on the Tongue : A Crime Novel. Book in the Ben Cooper & Diane Fry Series). Award-winning author Stephen Booth, likened by critics to such acclaimed masters as Ruth Rendell, Minette Walters, and Ian Rankin, returns with an evocative new Diane Fry/Ben Cooper crime novel ensconced in the icy depths of a bitter English Peak District winter.

Stephen Booth Blood on the Tongue 1 It was an hour before dawn when Detective Constable Ben Cooper first began to get the news. Читать онлайн Blood on the Tongue. An hour before dawn should be the dead hour. 1. It was an hour before dawn when Detective Constable Ben Cooper first began to get the news.

Blood on the Tongue - Cooper and Fry Crime Series 3 (Paperback). 'Best traditional crime novel of the year' Independent, Books of the Year. Stephen Booth (author). Booth makes high summer in Derbyshire as dark and terrifying as midwinter' Val McDermid. A leading light of British crime writing' Guardian. Author of the Cooper and Fry crime series. Visit the Stephen Booth author page Added to basket.

Stephen Booth (born 1952) is an English crime-writer. He is the author of the Derbyshire-set Cooper and Fry series. Booth was born in Burnley, Lancashire, the son of Jim and Edna Booth. At the age of two, he moved with his parents to Blackpool. He attended Arnold School in the town. He currently lives with his wife Lesley in Nottinghamshire. For over 27 years, he was a journalist for various newspapers and magazines including the Wilmslow Advertiser, Huddersfield Examiner, and the Worksop Guardian

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A leading light of British crime writing' Guardian. Stephen Booth is a journalist. Blood on the Tongue' was the third novel in his series set in the Peak District, and followed on from the success of the Gold Dagger-nominated & with the Virgins', and his widely acclaimed debut & Dog'.

Award-winning author Stephen Booth, likened by critics to such acclaimed masters as Ruth Rendell, Minette Walters, and Ian Rankin, returns with an evocative new Diane Fry/Ben Cooper crime novel ensconced in the icy depths of a bitter English Peak District winter. It isn't the easiest way to commit suicide. Marie Tennent seems simply to have curled into a fetal position in the freezing snow out on Irontongue Hill and remained there until her body was frozen over. There's no one to observe her death but the foxes and the hares. Her body has bruises, though. Her death is tragic. Is it also suspicious? Marie's is not the only death the police have to investigate. What about the baby's body that is discovered in the burned-out hulk of a World War II bomber? And the unidentified man who is crushed by a snowplow? Snow and ice have left E Division depleted, and Detective Sergeant Diane Fry needs all the help she can get. But her colleague, Detective Constable Ben Cooper, is following a cold trail of his own. In the winter of 1945, a Royal Air Force bomber crashed on the same Irontongue Hill where Marie Tennent's body was found, killing everyone except pilot Danny McTeague, who disappeared with a large sum of money. Now his granddaughter, Alison Morrissey, has arrived from across the Atlantic to clear his name. As Fry and Cooper pursue their respective cases, they must also struggle to work together. Where there once was attraction, there now is distrust -- and perhaps something more. Work comes first...but life can intervene in strange ways. Already a star in his native Britain, author Stephen Booth brings emotional tension and genuine surprise to this elegantly crafted and supremely satisfying crime novel.

Comments:

Bloodhammer

This third novel in the Cooper and Fry series is a long book at 512 pages. But they’re 512 pages packed with several complex yet engaging stories that slowly mesh into one tale tied to the crash of an RAF bomber in 1945.

However, this book could have been shortened by probably close to a hundred pages by cutting some overly long descriptive passages and some of Ben Cooper’s internal monologs. This novel would have been much faster paced and much more engaging then.

Cooper and Fry still need an infusion of ‘Grow up’ drugs. They’re both experienced, capable police officers but they act like siblings with severe jealousy problems. It’s already wearing a little thin and will get very tiring if it continues much longer

Still, I like this series enough that I’ll keep reading.

Chi

Winter is always a challenging time for the police in Edendale, Derbyshire. The blizzards and chilling winds make the bleak landscapes and twisting roads even more difficult to traverse and investigate in. But crime always goes on, regardless of the weather and the Edendale police have several cases in play.

A young woman is found buried in the snow. At first it appears she just got tired and lay down and was killed by exposure but the post mortem reveals bruises that are evidence of a beating. The case is reclassified as a murder and even more critically, it appears she had a young baby who is now missing.

Then a man's body is discovered when a snowplow hits it. Again, it appears to be a murder and the police don't even know who he is. His clothing shows a well-dressed man who should have been missed. Why isn't someone looking for him?

Then another strange event distracts attention from the recent murders. A woman has traveled to Derbyshire from Canada. She identifies herself as the granddaughter of a military pilot who crashed his plane into the mountains during WW II. All aboard were killed except for one Polish crew member and the pilot who supposedly survived only to vanish. He is blamed for the wreck and his granddaughter has come to clear his name. She is very determined but the police are already overwhelmed with work. She tries to enlist Ben in her search but his superiors have already forbidden anyone to help with the police force already spread thin.

When the cases all start to look as if they are connected, the police scramble to find out what all three have in common. Ben is the hometown boy who knows everyone and who is a town favorite. But his superiors, including Diane Fry, see him as a man who is easily distracted from the orders he is given. Will Ben's obstinate nature help to solve the crimes or is standard police procedure the way to go?

This is the third in the Cooper and Fry mystery series. In this one, Diane has just gotten the promotion that everyone assumed would go to Ben and is now his boss. This ratchets up the interplay between the two who come at every problem in a diametrically opposed fashion. Readers of the series will enjoy this further case and the unfolding of the relationship between the two. This book is recommended for mystery readers.

Bynelad

Way too much description, too much repetition of contextual material. Maybe included for atmosphere, but less would be more, for me. Diane Fry is just obnoxious and apparently completely lacking in self-insight. The resolutions of the various story lines are done so cursorily they were almost anti-climactic. But the writing flows fairly well, Ben Cooper is likable, and there is some story in there if you skip through some of the padding, as I did. I'd give it 2.5 stars if I could. Not sure if I'll try another or not.

Mr.Bean

I have now read 13 books in this series, IN A ROW, BACK TO BACK. They are that good. Stephen Booth's deep sense of place (England's Peak District) and his complex, sympathetic portraits of the people who inhabit it set these absorbing police procedurals well apart from the rest of the genre.

There is such vivid sensory description and intensity of emotion that I feel I have LIVED these books along with all the memorable, well-rounded characters Booth has created, most especially Cooper and Fry themselves as they develop and change over time. Even minor characters are never allowed to become stereotypes. We come to know and care about these people, and they gain our deepest sympathy regardless of their flaws.

I can't begin to put into words my gratitude to this accomplished author for sharing his unique gift. Above all, Booth respects his reader, takes no shortcuts, springs no rude surprises. Everything works together to build a complex and believable world that I can only hope will be sustained on and on into the future. Each new book just leaves me craving more. Five stars, indeed!

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