The Dead Place, HarperCollins (London, England), 2005, Bantam Books (New York, NY), 2007. One Last Breath, HarperCollins (London, England), 2004, Bantam Books (New York, NY), 2006. WRITINGS: CRIME NOVELSīlack Dog, Scribner ( New York, NY), 2000.ĭancing with the Virgins, Scribner ( New York, NY), 2001.īlood on the Tongue, Pocket (New York, NY), 2002.īlind to the Bones, Scribner (New York, NY), 2003. Lichfield Prize, Lichfield International Arts Festival, 1999, for unpublished work The Only Dead Thing Black Dog was named one of the six best crime novels of 2000, London Evening Standard Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel, 2001, for Black Dog, and 2002, for Dancing with Virgins Dagger in the Library Award, UK Crime Writers' Association, 2003, for Blind to the Bones. MEMBER:īritish Guild of Editors (former regional secretary), British Goat Society, Just Kidding Goat Society, The Toggenburg Breeders Society (president). Worked briefly as a school teacher before taking a newspaper job in Cheshire, England, beginning 1974 worked for newspapers and magazines, including as a sub-editor for London Daily Express and London Guardian, production editor for Farming Guardian, and for Barnsley Chronicle and Huddersfield Examiner. Agent-Teresa Chris, Teresa Chris Literary Agency, 43 Musard Rd., London, England, W6 8NR. Hobbies and other interests: Walking, photography, computers, the paranormal, local history, raising dairy goats. Education: Birmingham Polytechnic (now University of Central England), B.A. Booth does a wonderful job.' - Los Angeles Times 'Simultaneously classic, contemporary and haunting.' - Mysterious Bookshop, New York 'An atmospheric, psychological stunner.Born 1952, in Burnley, Lancashire, England married wife's name Lesley. *Winner of the Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel *Finalist for the Anthony Award for Best First Mystery 'Suspenseful and supremely engaging. The ambitious DC Diane Fry has been transferred from a nearby city, a woman as ruthless as she is attractive. But Cooper's local knowledge and instincts are about to face an even greater challenge. It seems Laura was the keeper of secrets beyond her years and, in a case where no-one is innocent, everyone is a suspect.

His community is hiding a girl's killer, and a past as dark as the Derbyshire night.

For young police detective Ben Cooper, the work has just begun. But summer comes to an end when the body of missing teenager Laura Vernon is found. It's been a long, hot summer in the Peak District national park. 'Dark, intense and utterly compelling', Black Dog was an extraordinary debut from a writer who has rapidly become one of the UK's most successful crime novelists. The award-winning first novel in the Cooper & Fry crime series, set in England's beautiful and atmospheric Peak District.

Black dog by stephen booth