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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 2000
  • Latest Book:
    April 2021
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Full Series List in Order

Cooper & Fry

1 - Black Dog (Oct-2000)
2 - Dancing With the Virgins (Oct-2001)
3 - Blood on the Tongue (Oct-2002)
4 - Blind to the Bones (Jan-2003)
5 - One Last Breath (Aug-2006)
6 - The Dead Place (May-2007)
7 - Scared to Live (May-2008)
8 - Dying to Sin (May-2008)
9 - The Kill Call (Apr-2009)
10 - Lost River ()
10 - Top Hard (Dec-2011)
11 - The Devil's Edge (Sep-2012)
12 - Dead and Buried (Apr-2013)
13 - Already Dead (Aug-2014)
14 - The Corpse Bridge (Dec-2014)
15 - The Murder Road (Sep-2015)
16 - Secrets of Death (Apr-2017)
17 - Dead in the Dark (Sep-2018)
18 - Fall Down Dead (Apr-2019)

Book List in Order: 22 titles



  • As helicopters search Northern England's Peak District for fifteen-year-old Laura Vernon, Detective Constable Ben Cooper quietly dreads the worst. And when her body is found in the woods, Cooper's investigation begins with a short list of markedly un...



  • A “suspenseful and supremely engaging” police procedural featuring a detective team investigating ritualistic killings of women in the English countryside (Los Angeles Times).As winter closes in on the moors, so does death. The body of a young wo...



  • In this “outstanding” thriller with “a complex and absorbing plot,” rival detectives investigate murder by digging into the past of their rural community (Publishers Weekly, starred review).It’s a new year for Peak District detectives Ben C...



  • Something sinister is happening on the desolate moors of England's Peak District. The villagers of Withens are dying. Nineteen-year-old Emma Renshaw disappeared two years ago. Her body has never been found, and her parents still cling to the hope tha...



  • Set in England's legendary Peak District, Stephen Booth's acclaimed mysteries tell tales of men and women under siege by both ordinary life and extraordinary crime. Now, in a stunning, fascinatingly intelligent novel, Booth's uneasy young policeman, ...



  • Hailed by the Washington Times as "one of the elite British crime writers," Stephen Booth returns to England's atmospheric Peak District, where Detective Constable Ben Cooper and Detective Sergeant Diane Fry are drawn one cryptic clue at a time to wh...



  • A chilling police procedural from the award-winning author of Scared to Live. “If you read only one new crime writer this year, he’s your man.” -- Yorkshire PostYou never know what you might uncover . . . While digging the foundation for the c...



  • Detective Constable Ben Cooper and Detective Sergeant Diane Fry must uncover the secrets of two grim murder scenes in England's Peak District--one inexplicable...and the other unspeakable. How do you investigate the murder of a woman without a lif...



  • On a rain-swept hillside, hounds from the local foxhunt discover the body of a well-dressed man. At that exact moment, an anonymous caller reports the same body . . . lying half a mile away.It's only the first in a series of baffling clues as Ben Coo...






  • As he watches criminals target a French lorry in a layby, Stones McClure thinks his plans might actually come together for once. He's looking forward to a life full of everything he could possibly want - money, cars, a pair of fancy cowboy boots. But...



  • Home is where the bodies lie in this crime thriller packed with nerve-jangling suspense and moody atmosphere from the award-winning author of Claws.The newspapers call them the Savages: a band of home invaders as merciless as they are stealthy. Usual...



  • DS Ben Cooper comes closer to death than he ever has before in the new Cooper/Fry case: As moorland fires sweep across the Peak District national park, hundreds of firefighters and park rangers battle to prevent flames reaching a remote inn, once ...



  • Some sins won't wash away . . . A summer of endless rain in the Peak District leaves the officers of Derbyshire's criminal investigation department with a problem. They have discovered a man's body lying in shallow water, but torrential downpours ...



  • When it comes to murder, nothing is sacred . . . For centuries, mourners in Derbyshire have used the Corpse Bridge to cross the River Dove and reach their village burial grounds. When a developer plans to deconsecrate the land by turning it int...



  • Welcome to the picturesque English village of Shawhead, where there's one road in and one road out. And on that road this morning is an abandoned vehicle...with an ominous bloodstain inside. It's a mystery. It could be a murder. Where and who is t...



  • Residents of the Peak District are used to tourists descending on its soaring hills and brooding valleys. However, this summer brings a different kind of visitor to the idyllic landscape, leaving behind bodies and secrets. A series of suicides thr...



  • How do you prove a murder without a body? Ten years ago, Reece Bower was accused of killing his wife, a crime he always denied. Extensive police searches near his home in Bakewell found no trace of Annette Bower's remains, and the case against...



  • 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 embrac...




  • Set in and around the dark, misty canals of Lichfield, Stephen Booth''s incredible new novel is awash with mystery.

    When council officer Chris Buckley is approached by an odd old man demanding help in healing a decades-old family rift, he ...










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    This atmospheric thriller is perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson.A holiday weekend is ruined by a drowning in a picturesque village. The incident not only traumatizes Detective Cooper, a helpless witness to the tragedy, but leads him to...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Stephen Booth has published 22 books.

Stephen Booth does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Nemesis Horizon Project, was published in April 2021.

The first book by Stephen Booth, Black Dog, was published in October 2000.

Yes. Stephen Booth has 1 series.