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Fall Down Dead: A Cooper & Fry Mystery (Cooper & Fry Mysteries) Kindle Edition

by Stephen Booth (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 1,586 ratings
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The dramatic, gripping new Cooper & Fry crime thriller from bestseller Stephen Booth sees the stunning Peak District backdrop prove fatal for one walking party

They knew the danger, but they went anyway...

"Almost before she'd stopped breathing, a swirl of mist snaked across her legs and settled in her hair, clutching her in its chilly embrace, hiding her body from view. It would be hours before she was found."

The mountain of Kinder Scout offers the most incredible views of the Peak District, but when thick fog descends there on a walking party led by enigmatic Darius Roth, this spectacular landscape is turned into a death trap that claims a life.

For DI Ben Cooper however, something about the way Faith Matthew fell to her death suggests it was no accident, and he quickly discovers more than one of the hikers may have had reason to murder their companion.

To make things worse, his old colleague DS Diane Fry finds herself at centre of an internal investigations storm that threatens to drag Cooper down with it.

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  6. Publication date
    April 16, 2019
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“A modern master of rural noir.” — The Guardian

“Booth’s aim is to portray the darkness that lies beneath the surface . . . in this he succeeds wonderfully well.”— — Daily Mail (London)

“Suspenseful and supremely engaging. Booth does a wonderful job.” — Los Angeles Times

“Ben Cooper and Diane Fry are the most interesting crime team to arrive on the mystery scene in a long while.” — Rocky Mountain News

“Booth delivers some of the best crime fiction in the UK.” — Manchester Evening News

“Clever, intricate . . . Cooper is an ascendant Lewis to Fry’s bitter Morse.” — Financial Times

“Ingenious plotting and richly atmospheric.” — Reginald Hill

“Intelligent and substantive crime fiction, rich with complex characters.” — Library Journal

About the Author

Stephen Booth's fourteen novels featuring Cooper and Fry, all to be published by Witness, have sold over half a million copies around the world.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07GNGRFQ9
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Witness Impulse (April 16, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 16, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1341 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 006291278X
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 1,586 ratings

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Stephen Booth is an award winning UK crime writer, the creator of Derbyshire police detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry, who have appeared in 18 novels set in England's atmospheric Peak District. His latest novel DROWNED LIVES is a standalone historical thriller, a story of hidden family secrets among the inland waterways of South Staffordshire.

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. DC 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. The latest title in the series is FALL DOWN DEAD. Stephen is also the author of a previous standalone crime novel TOP HARD.

A former newspaper journalist, Stephen Booth was born in the Lancashire mill town of Burnley and brought up by the sea in Blackpool. He attended Birmingham City University and worked on local newspapers in the North and Midlands of England before his first novel BLACK DOG was published in 2000. He lives in Nottinghamshire.

Visit the author's website at: http://www.stephen-booth.com

Follow Stephen Booth on Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephenbooth

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4.3 out of 5 stars
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Pamela
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Suspense Story
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2020
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The story kept my attention the whole time with lots of twists and turns.
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Virginia Reader
4.0 out of 5 stars Complicated book with a couple of storylines
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2022
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This was an engaging book that probably had too many things going on at once. Some of the characters were too strange and the scenario for the person who turned out to be the killer of the first victim had few clues to identify him/her, so it came out of the blue. There was a story I poorly understood about Diane Fry and a plot by cooked cops to get her fired. It didn't seem to fit in with the rest of the story and was a distraction. Having made these criticisms, the story was fun to read and the author writes very well. The descriptions of Kinder mountain and plateau were interesting and the activities and heroism of the mountain rescue teams are very impressive.
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Bob
5.0 out of 5 stars Desperate for next book
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2022
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I've loved all of the Cooper and Fry books (more Cooper than Fry, of course). Am really hoping the series has not ended. It's so intelligently developed and written, I always hate to finish each book.
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David A. Freas
3.0 out of 5 stars Lace up your hiking boots for another tour of the Peak District.
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2022
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Stephen Booth takes us on another detailed tour of the Peak District in this, the 18th entry in his Cooper and Fry series. He seems driven to mention every rock, tree, business, house, and town every character in his books pass. As I’ve said in prior reviews, it detracts from my enjoyment of these stories because the places he names are just words on the page that mean nothing. And I’m not about to buy an Ordinance Survey map just to find them.

Fry and Cooper have minimal interaction here (as they have in every novel since Fry left Edenvale) but it is at least a tad different than their prior ones. Fry is brought before the Professional Standards Bureau on charges of malfeasance and asks Cooper for help. But even here, they can’t forego the passive-aggressive attitude that has been part and parcel of their relationship from day one.

Cooper, at the same time, is trying to solve what happened to a woman who fell to her death while on a hike with a group led by a charismatic hiker. Was her death accident, suicide, or murder? There seem to be no clues pointing to one until Cooper reviews all the witness statements.

As I’ve said before, I find Cooper and Fry’s sniping at each other irritating and Booth’s insistence on turning every book into a travelogue. But Booth continues to write complex mysteries that keep the reader guessing up to the end.

I’ll be back for the next one.
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Nigel Aves
5.0 out of 5 stars Another great read in the series
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2019
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Interesting twists and turns in the saga of Copper and Fry. Best to have read the series as it does help knowing the back story.
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LagunaLady
4.0 out of 5 stars A Solid British Mystery
Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2019
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This is a mystery based on an historical event that took place in 1932 called the Kinder Mass Trespass, in which a group of ramblers hiked across the Kinder Scout to assert their right to access public lands. In the story, a new group of hikers has formed and in a commemorative walk across the same terrain, one of the hikers meets with a suspicious death. It was interesting learning a little about this event and a lot about the weather and landscape in the Peak districts of England. There are some subplots involving Ben Cooper and his new girlfriend , Chloe, as well as one involving Diane Fry. Fry and Cooper have a long history that has been written about in other novels.

This isn’t a suspenseful novel —you have to have a vested interest in the characters and I must say that it helps to have read his previous books. If you are new to Stephen Booth, I would definitely recommend that you try to read them in order as much as possible. I have enjoyed all of his books, but some of them a lot more than others.
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorites
Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2020
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This book was much faster paced and less obvious then recent installments. Enjoyed reading right to the end. Thank you!
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Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2019
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I didn't put. It down
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Carolyn King
5.0 out of 5 stars Another great mystery!
Reviewed in Canada on December 31, 2020
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ValC
5.0 out of 5 stars The Cooper and Fry series continues as fresh as ever.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 25, 2020
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I really enjoy this series especially as I live in Derbyshire. I find myself googling various places mentioned and have decided to visit some of the eateries described.

I was really confused as to whom I suspected as the storyline held so many red herrings. It was skillfully written and was very hard to put down.

I look forward to next book and hope that it's not too long in coming.

Well recommended for those of us that enjoy well crafted 'whodunnits'.
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catso
3.0 out of 5 stars Bien mais ...
Reviewed in France on January 13, 2020
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J'aime bien les romans de Stephen Booth avec ses personnages et ses histoires policières bien campées dans un environnement spécifique, à savoir le Peak District (dans le nord-est de l'Angleterre) dont l'auteur nous dévoile les beautés, l'histoire et les secrets au fil de ses intrigues, MAIS ce roman-là est truffé de ce qu'on peut appeler "placement de produits" puisque de nombreuses marques sont citées alors que ça n'apporte évidemment rien à l'histoire; ça m'a beaucoup agacée. Dommage.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Duller than the dense for that encircles the dangerous...
Reviewed in Italy on April 17, 2019
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... fascinating - but not only in this case deadly - landscape of England's Peak District. One of the most famous National Park of the British Isles. And the author Stephen Booth never ever lets his readers forget that fact. But after three or four visits to the crime scene on Kinder I was only annoyed by reading once again all those oh so important names of all those oh so monumental mountains, hills, bogs, lakes, rivers and so further and so on. Nice setting, dull crime. 13 go on a hike, 12 return relatively unharmed - but one young woman was obviously forced to take a short-cut. Right down head first for about 50 feet - about 15 meters, a dead fall. 12 people are telling and re-telling tales about their horrible adventure on Kinder, but obviously ONE person lies straight through their teeth. In the meantime Diane Fry is about to be deep fried by Personal Affairs guys. Who obviously want her to confess to something she didn't even do, or know about. Grave misconduct against a fellow officer, her contacts with her once drug addicted sister, or that decades old gang attack on herself which never was properly resolved - take a pick. Here obviously a victim is about to be crucified. Someone wants Diane Fry out of the Force, and in shame and as fast as possible. OK, it does not help that Ben and Diane are not very friendly at the moment. So those two run around in circles, each one halfway in the case of the other. That got me nervous, more than nervous to be sincere. All that investigating around and around. At a certain point I thought I had some idea about the murderer of the woman, finally, I saud to myself. But then another body was found and ciao ciao to my theory. But no-one is able to solve that puzzle before the very end, only Ben, naturally. Because we all lack all of the crucial information...
No thanks, another hike in the Peak District and I throw myself from some cliff into a bog. Not a hint of suspence in the whole of the book. Old affairs chewed on once again, once again Diane in distress and once again Ben in shiny armour to save her. Thanks, but NO thanks. That was it for me. And Stephen Booth changes protagonists and places for his next book. Maybe he has grown a bit tired, too of always the same cliffs, hills, tors and bogs...
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