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Title: Dead in the Dark

Subtitle: Cooper and Fry, Book 17

Author: Stephen Booth

Narrator: Mike Rogers

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-13-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Master crime writer Stephen Booth ventures into the Peak District's dark subterranean world for a brand-new stunning and gasp-inducing Cooper and Fry thriller.

How 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?

Critic Reviews:

"A modern master." (Guardian)

Members Reviews:

Time to hold the Fry?

Another wonderfully atmospheric work from Stephen Booth. It makes you want to dig out your O.S. map and roam the Peak District. However, if you're a veteran of the Cooper and Fry novels you may be left wondering why Fry still appears. She has become little more than an irritant.

Unless Booth elevates her role in his next work, even if psychiatric counselling is required in the opening chapters, she'll become an irrelevant irritant.

Four Stars

Good story line and descriptive of the Peak district of England.

#17 in Cooper/Fry series. This a fun up to date multi crime police procedural

It is not unusual for Police Procedural mysteries to introduce a crime and then have the detective solve it. Like he or she has nothing else to do but focus on the single crime being solved. So what is fun and a bit unusual in Steven Boothâs 17 Cooper and Fry series is that Cooper is now in charge and has a missing person, a ten year old murder with no body, an arson, robberies and then Diane Fry (his former partner) is working a murder in Cooperâs district. Keeping all of these balls in the air is much of the fun.

It is interesting too that Booth steps right in the middle of the issues of immigration and racism and alt-right hate groups. The referendum vote apparently has opened some emotions on both sides of the issue in the Peak District.

I have read the last six books in this series and the very first two (leaving out 9 others). The recent arc of the stories focus more on Cooper character than Fry but that may change with the next book given some information provided in this story line. Cooper here has begun to date again.

Also, it appears that this latest book (which I ordered from the UK) has not yet found a US publisher beyond the e-book variety. And it has been said for a while that the series is to become a TV show but no update in quite some time. Booth has a fun email newsletter which I get and find entertaining. I am beginning to find his Cooper and Fry books are like comfort food.

WOW - a new book in the series about DI Ben Cooper & DS Diane Fry, that...

Review for Kindle eBook, bought and verified on amazon.it - Italia

***

.. is not totally boring or which is permanently resuming the personal frictions between the two main protagonists.

Ben Cooper is new as a Detective Inspector and his district is a bit difficult to define.