Scared to Live (Cooper and Fry Crime Series, Book 7) - Tapa blanda

Praise for ‘The Dead Place’:

'Another thoroughly enjoyable book from one of Britain's best crime writers' Sunday Telegraph

'Dark Derbyshire mystery...not for the squeamish.' Daily Mail

Praise for Stephen Booth and his other novels.

‘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

'A leading light of British crime writing.’ Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian

‘Best traditional crime novel of the year.' Independent, Books of the Year

Ben Fry and Diane Cooper return in another psychological Peak District thriller from the acclaimed author of ‘Blind to the Bones’ and ‘The Dead Place.’

It was an ordinary house fire with tragic consequences: a wife and two children dead. But then for DS Fry and DC Cooper the ordinary always meant trouble.

Trouble like a grieving husband behaving as though his life is in danger. Trouble like a shocking assassination – of an old woman living alone in a quiet Peak District village. Her death suggests that even the most harmless people have cause to expect the unexpected.

But Fry and Cooper are certainly surprised to find a link between the two incidents, one that will take them halfway across Europe and back again in their search for the truth.

Along the way, they discover some of the reasons why people can be scared to live – and the connection at the heart of the enquiry that proves to be the most surprising revelation of all...