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Informationen zum Autor Born in Lancashire, Stephen Booth has been a newspaper and magazine journalist for 25 years. He has worked as a rugby reporter, a night shift sub-editor on the 'Scottish Daily Express' and Production Editor of the 'Farming Guardian' magazine, in addition to spells on local newspapers in the North of England. Stephen lives in a Georgian dower house in Nottinghamshire with his wife, three cats and goats. His interests include folklore, the Internet and walking in the Peak District. Klappentext It was an ordinary house fire with tragic consequences: a wife and two children dead. But then for DC Fry and DS 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... Zusammenfassung A dark psychological thriller featuring Diane Fry and Ben Cooper, in which a small community is ripped apart by arson and murder. ‘Ingenious plotting and richly atmospheric’ – Reginald Hill.
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Praise for 'Scared to Live':
'It's easy to see why Stephen Booth's novels are so popular. The awesome scenery is an ideal background for a murder or two; he has developed his two principal characters into rounded personalities and he always gives them an intriguing mystery to investigate.' Sunday Telegraph
'A modern master of rural noir.' Guardian
'Booth's aim is to portray the darkness that lies below the surface... in this he succeeds wonderfully well.' Mark Billingham, Daily Mail
'Ingenious plotting and richly atmospheric.' Reginald Hill
Praise for Stephen Booth:
'Stephen Booth creates a fine sense of place and atmosphere ... the unguessable solution to the crime comes as a real surprise.' 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.' Evening Standard
'A leading light of British crime writing.' Guardian
'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
