The second in the series set in the Derbyshire Peak District, "Dancing with the Virgins" is a tense psychological follow-up to Stephen Booth's acclaimed debut, "Black Dog". 'The body of the woman sprawled obscenely among the stones! She looked like a dead woman, dancing.' The ring of cairns known as the Nine Virgins has stood on the windswept moors...more

A death in the family-from-hell bring Detectives Fry and Cooper to a remote and unfriendly rural community in their fourth psychological thriller. 'And as it grew dark, Withens became almost entirely silent. Except for the screaming.' A small village in the Peak District, Withens is troubled by theft and vandalism, mostly generated by local famil...more

Guilt, sacrifice and redemption in a freezing Derbyshire winter in this tense psychological thriller from the acclaimed author of 'Black Dog'. 'The sun had dropped over the edge of Irontongue Hill so that the snow-covered moor was in shadow ! but Marie Tennent would never see the dawn.' Marie's was not the only body lying undiscovered under the P...more

Stephen Booth's first novel Black Dog is an impressive portrait of two sorts of policing. Ben is a local man who knows everybody and perhap scares too much, while Diane is a stranger wherever she goes and is perhaps too cold-blooded; when they find themselves rivals for promotion, and colleagues on a difficult case, breaking strain is going to be r...more