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For fans of Broadchurch, Louise Penny, and Peter Robinson comes a spellbinding new novel from internationally bestselling author Stephen BoothResidents 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?.



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Stephen Booth

Stephen Booth is an award winning British crime writer, the creator of two young Derbyshire police detectives, Ben Cooper and Diane Fry, who have appeared in 18 novels set in England's beautiful and atmospheric Peak District. Described as "one of our best story tellers", Stephen has been a Gold Dagger finalist, an Anthony Award nominee, twice winner of a Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel, and twice shortlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year. Ben Cooper was a finalist for the Sherlock Award for the best detective created by a British author, and in 2003 the Crime Writers' Association presented Stephen with the Dagger in the Library Award for "the author whose books have given readers the most pleasure". The Cooper & Fry novels are published all around the world, and have been translated into 16 languages, with global sales of around two and a half million copies The latest titles are DEAD IN THE DARK, published in the USA in 2018, and FALL DOWN DEAD, due in April 2019.The series so far:BLACK DOGDANCING WITH THE VIRGINSBLOOD ON THE TONGUEBLIND TO THE BONESONE LAST BREATHTHE DEAD PLACESCARED TO LIVEDYING TO SINTHE KILL CALLLOST RIVERTHE DEVIL'S EDGEDEAD AND BURIEDALREADY DEADTHE CORPSE BRIDGETHE MURDER ROADSECRETS OF DEATHDEAD IN THE DARKFALL DOWN DEADThere's also a Ben Cooper novella:CLAWS



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