Stephen Booth - Black Dog - Paperback - Second Hand

Black Dog is an exceedingly good first novel:

wholly engrossing, it has well-drawn characters

and a real sense of place' T J Binyon, Evening Standard

When smart, sexy teenager Laura Vernon goes missing one

long, hot summer in the Peak District, local police mount a

full-scale search operation. But it's retired lead miner Harry

Dickinson who finally discovers Laura's body, and he seems

bent on obstructing their investigation. Even her parents are

holding something back. But what could be more important

than finding Laura's murderer?

Ben Cooper, a young DC living with tragedy, has known the

villagers all his life, but his instinctive feelings about the case

are called into question by the arrival of Diane Fry, a ruthlessly

ambitious detective from another division. As the investigation

twists and turns, Ben and Diane discover that to understand

the present, they must also understand the past; and in a world

where no one is entirely innocent, pain and suffering can be

the only outcome.

'In this atmospheric debut, Stephen Booth makes

high summer in Derbyshire as dark and terrifying

as midwinter' Val McDermid

'Stephen Booth creates a fine sense of place and

atmosphere in his first novel ... and the unguessable

solution to the crime comes as a real surprise'

Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph

Cover montage photography Collections/Robin Weaver

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ISBN 0-00-651432-4

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