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Title: Blood on the Tongue by Stephen Booth ISBN: 0-7434-5783-8 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Beautifully written and all absorbing but lengthy
Comment: Ben Cooper and Diane Fry are back with their third investigation. In the Peak District, several deaths need looking into. First of all, a young woman, Marie Tennent, is found curled up in the snow. Could she be a suicide or, perhaps, it is something much more sinister. Second, the body of a dead man is uncovered by a snowplow. His identity is unknown. Third, a woman from Canada has come into town to clear the name of her grandfather who piloted a plane into the remote mountainside in World War II. His body has never been found and he is considered to be a deserter. Ben becomes interested and wants to help in spite of his orders to stay away.
Stephen Booth's third novel is every bit as good as the previous two. His novels are long, at times, lugubrious, affairs. They are strong on atmosphere, depiction of locale and, most of all, highly realistic depictions of the characters.
It is truly remarkable that in so few books, Stephen Booth has soared to the highest ranks of crime writers in Great Britain. I still feel the books are way too long and have always complained about that. However, they are so beautifully written that they can completely absorb the reader into its pages so one forgets the time. This book is as highly recommended as the others.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another Powerful Performance
Comment: The third in the Cooper / Fry series once again uses the rugged, picturesque landscape of the Derbyshire Peak District as a stark backdrop to another enjoyable police procedural.
It's January and the Edendale police are severely short-staffed thanks to terrible weather and the resulting high number of "slip and fall" injuries. Meanwhile the snow is falling and is creating havoc is a town that seems to be going through a bit of a crime wave. Beatings, missing children and a couple of dead bodies are discovered in the snow, one going unidentified and the other prompting more questions than are answered. On top of this comes an unusually high level of interest in a 57-year-old wartime plane crash that had taken place just outside of town. How had the plane crashed? Whatever became of the pilot? Why is there so much interest in it now after all this time?
Detective Constable Ben Cooper is still the hardworking, under appreciated officer who is more than willing to take on any task assigned to him. His immediate superior Detective Sergeant Diane Fry is still the antagonistic outsider who resents Cooper's popularity and hardworking ethics. Surely something's got to give between these two sometime.
This excellent series of books is continued by yet another strong entry. Powerful writing gives the feeling of being placed within sight of the beautiful peaks around Edendale.
Rating: 5
Summary: Surprising
Comment: The surprising thing about this author is that he isn't recognized more widely.
His writing is absolutely first-class, and his use of the
English language surpasses almost any other writing most us
encounter. In this narrow field of the "psychological thriller," his command of the language, and his fresh use of
the metaphor and simile, is unparalleled.
A serious reader will have to re-read some of his passages just
for the pleasure of how the mental picture developes as the
words are flowing.
In this outing, his "heros," Ben and Diane, remain at personal
odds, and they have a difficult time working together on their
rural Derbyshire Constabulary, but a series of crimes brings
them together again to work their particular magic on violent
felons.
A couple of dead bodies are found, apparently unrelated, but
investigation leads back to a WWII crash of a British bomber
in the rural mountains, and an amazing series of crimes begins
to unfold as evidence points to an ever-widening story of crime,
deception at multiple levels, and family relationships. The
details presented and analyzed will hold the reader's attention
throughout the book.
This author also has an unusual insight into how crime victims
react to the assaults on them, and some readers will almost
shrink from absorbing the details of that process.
This story is one that should not be missed by anyone reading
in the "crime" or "thriller" field, and we also learn a lot
about life in the rural England of today.
Rush to grab this one.
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Title: Dancing with the Virgins : A Constable Ben Cooper Novel by Stephen Booth ISBN: 0743431006 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Black Dog by Stephen Booth ISBN: 0671786040 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Blind to the Bones : A Crime Novel by Stephen Booth ISBN: 074323796X Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Playing with Fire : A Novel of Suspense by Peter Robinson ISBN: 006019877X Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 20 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Now May You Weep: A Novel by Deborah Crombie ISBN: 0060525231 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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