The Kill Call

An atmospheric new Fry and Cooper thriller for fans of Peter Robinson and Reginald Hill.

On a rain-swept Derbyshire moor, hounds from the local foxhunt find the body of a well-dressed man whose head has been crushed. Yet an anonymous caller reports the same body lying half a mile away. Called in to investigate the discovery, detectives DS Diane Fry and DC Ben Cooper become entangled in the violent world of hunting and hunt saboteurs, horse theft and a little-known sector of the meat trade.

As Fry follows a complex trail of her own to unravel the shady business interests of the murder victim, Cooper realizes that the answer to the case might lie deep in the past. History is everywhere around him in the Peak District landscape -- particularly in the "plague village"; of Eyam, where an outbreak of Black Death has been turned into a modern-day tourist attraction.

But, even as the final solution is revealed, both Fry and Cooper find themselves having to face up to the disturbing reality of the much more recent past.

About the Author

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 in the UK with his wife, three cats and three goats.

His debut crime novel Black Dog was the first in a series set in the Peak District and featuring young Derbyshire police detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry. Black Dog was named as one of the six best crime novels of 2000 by the London Evening Standard, and Reginald Hill said: "Stephen Booth‘s Black Dog sinks its teeth into you and doesn‘t let you go." The second title in the series is Dancing with the Virgins. Blood on the Tongue is the third novel in his series set in the Peak District. Blind To The Bones is the fourth novel in his series set in the Peak District, and follows on from the success of his widely acclaimed earlier novels.