Ben Cooper & Diane Fry (7 books in series)
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review 1: An enjoyable read though with some misgivings. The female characters aren't terribly convincingly depicted, with the female protagonist, Fry, very hard to warm to. (This, Book 9, is the first Cooper & Fry book I've read so maybe I need to start at the beginning?) I found the plot...
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review 1: As a fan of Stephen Booth's Cooper and Fry series, I was rather disappointed with this one. The first half of the novel had no plot development whatsoever. Instead, the reader got endless descriptions of landscape, what seems like the entire history of the city of Birmingham both...
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review 1: Another excellent mystery set in the Derbyshire Peak District of UK. The author always includes information about events and customs that may not be generally well known and this one has two issues that I found intriguing. The book's title refers to the sound of a huntsman's ho...
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review 1: Fires are burning across the moorland in this next installment in the Ben Cooper/Diane Fry series. The Light House is a pub that has been closed for a couple years but now it is in the path of the fires. Although the police have checked the area as the fires died down, it was D...
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review 1: I have to admit that I read this episode in the Cooper/Fry series out of order, but luckily, the author gives quite a bit of information about what happened in the previous novel since it has a great deal of impact on the story line. Cooper is on medical leave after being invol...
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review 1: I en by på engelska landsbygden hittas en kvinna mördad i sitt kök. Hennes man är svårt skadad. Blickarna riktas mot en rånarliga som härjar i trakten, men inget tycks vara stulet. Mordutredningen leds av Ben Cooper. Han upptäcker snart att invånarna i byn är mer angelägna att sk...
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review 1: First Booth book to read. Another hyped up novel by the press. It needed a map. Not all of us are familiar with the B6061 or the A610. I became so confused with east west that I felt dizzy. Sometimes the writing felt like a lot of copy and paste: page276. "it was where David an...