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    The Murder Road: A Cooper & Fry Mystery

    By Stephen Booth

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    For fans of Broadchurch, Louise Penny, and Peter Robinson comes a spellbinding new novel from internationally bestselling author Stephen Booth

    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 the driver? Whose blood has been discovered? Why are the people of Shawhead so hostile toward Detective Ben Cooper, sent in to take charge of the investigation?

    As Cooper peels back layers of lies and exposes dark secrets to the light, he draws ever closer to a killer hiding in plain sight. Packed with atmosphere, suspense, and surprises, The Murder Road is Stephen Booth's most unforgettable novel yet.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 8, 2015
    ISBN9780062439239
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    The Murder Road: A Cooper & Fry Mystery
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    Stephen Booth

    Stephen Booth's fourteen novels featuring Cooper and Fry, all to be published by Witness, have sold over half a million copies around the world.

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    • 4/5
      I like to think of Booth's long-running series as the anti-Midsomer Murders. In place of Midsomer's pretty countryside, twee villages and charming eccentric residents, Booth gives us the bleakness of the Peak District, small, huddled villages and ugly towns, and sullen inhabitants. This latest entry is no different, set in a village so small it barely qualifies, where everyone has secrets and little interest in divulging them to newly promoted Ben Cooper. A truck driver is murdered after his vehicle jams under the bridge on the only road into Shawhead. When Cooper discovers the truck should not have been there at all, it leads him into a mystery based around a horriffic vehicle accident from 8 years before. In addition to the case, Cooper also has to deal with the retirement of long-serving comic relief Gavin Murfett, the advent of a new team member Dev Sharma, whom Cooper is not all sure about, and the continuing pain of the loss of his fiancee. His long-time foil Diane Fry, for he whom he has confusing feelings, makes only a cameo appearance, but it is decisive, and ends one long-running thread apparently for good. This is as good an entry as any other in the series, never exciting, but full of interesting characters, meticulously plotted and comfortably paced. Above all, there is the enduring appeal of the Peak District, one of Britain's bleakest regions but parodoxically it's most desired tourist and residential destination. Worthwhile reading.
    • 4/5
      Mac Kelsey got lost driving the lorry to make deliveries for Windmill Feed Solutions. His GPS led him off on the wrong exit. Unable to turn the lorry around on this tiny one-lane road, he kept driving. First sheep blocked his path; then his lorry became irreversibly stuck under a bridge. What else could go wrong? He didn’t have to wait long to find out … and it would be the last day of his life.Amanda Hibbert came along the road later and was tic’d because a lorry was blocking her path. She couldn’t see it was stuck until she got out of her car. She didn’t see the driver anywhere so she opened the cab door and stepped up to look inside. She still didn’t see the driver, but she found a lot of blood. She called the authorities. Detective Ben Cooper was given charge over the investigation. He and several other officers began studying any forensics left at the scene of the crime and began interviewing nearby residents. The area was largely built around agriculture and farming so the houses were far and few between.This murder is set around the tiny English village of Shawhead. The author’s vision of the area was well captured in words. The reader could easily ‘see’ the land with farmhouses and animals and farmers who are used to keeping to themselves. The characters of DI Ben Cooper, DS Diane Fry and others they work with were very likeable and realistic. Diane Fry did have a much smaller part on this particular writing. It is the fifteenth book of the Cooper and Fry series, but I read it as a stand-alone quite easily. The novel starts off at a great pace but tends to slow midway and then pick up again making for a satisfying end. Rating: 3.5 out of 5.