The Kill Call - Stephen Booth

The Derelict killing (1703 words)
by CPTDANIELS - written on 02/05/12 (Very useful, 86 readings)
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==Background:== I have read several novels by Stephen Booth and its fair to say I like his style of crime mysteries. Recently I received an Amazon voucher and I was keen to fill in some of the gaps in the Ben Cooper and Diane Fry series. The book I am about to review is book nine of twelve so far published in the series and was released in 2009. ==About the author:== Stephen Booth was been writing crime fiction since 2000. His background is twenty-five years in journalism. With the majority of this English authors work being in the Cooper and Fry series. Of which the second in the series Dancing with the virgins being nominated in 2001 for the Dagger Award for ...

Lost River - Stephen Booth

Deeply Disturbing family ties. (1118 words)
by QueenElf - written on 24/01/12 (Very useful, 18 readings)
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Stephen Booth is the author of a series of detective novels of which Lost River is the tenth in the series. It is possible to read this as a standalone novel, though it does help to have some background knowledge. His books are all set in the Derbyshire area he knows and loves so well, using the rugged Peak district landscape as a dark and sometime bleak backdrop to his books, which tend to inspire a brooding menace to each one I ve read so far. His books feature the characters of a local man, Detective Constable Ben Cooper and Detective Sergeant Diane Fry, whose transfer from her Birmingham background initially affected Ben Cooper s career in a bad way. The Story. At ...