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Bezig met laden... Blind to the Bones (2003)door Stephen Booth
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Cooper and Fry...what interesting characters with insufferable personalities. The author seems to delight in portraying Cooper and Fry.as unlikable...yet they excel in getting the case solved. This one also has a great deal of history and geography of the area blended in beautifully with the storyline. One of the best aspects of this series is that the reader seldom has the murderer correct. So there is always mystery to these mysteries. It has been a while since I listened to this audiobook, but for me it was one of his most memorable - the insular little village, the difficult local family, the oddly threatening male dancers - very good. And the missing college girl with her family in denial. I don't remember the resolution, but I remember the atmosphere. Definitely recommended. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Cooper and Fry (4)
A death in the family-from-hell bring Detectives Fry and Cooper to a remote and unfriendly rural community in their fourth psychological thriller. 'And as it grew dark, Withens became almost entirely silent. Except for the screaming.' A small village in the Peak District, Withens is troubled by theft and vandalism, mostly generated by local family-from-hell, the Oxleys. Now it is the focus of a murder investigation - a man's body has been found on the bleak moors nearby, and the man is an Oxley. To crack the case, DC Ben Cooper must break open the delinquent clan. His boss, DS Diane Fry, is also in Withens. Grim new evidence has turned up in the case of a missing student but her parents refuse to believe she could be dead. The darkness in Withens's heart is growing. And things are only going to get nastier... Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The setting, the history, and the mystery are first-rate. Booth really had me scratching my head, trying to figure out what was going on and who was responsible. Front and center are police officers Diane Fry and Ben Cooper. Diane is the outsider. You've heard of Type A people? Well, Diane Cooper is Type AAA, and she and DC Ben Cooper, an easy-going local lad, are like chalk and cheese. Every time Cooper has to deal with Fry, he feels like he's barely survived a life-threatening situation. Fry's concentration on the missing Emma Renshaw dredges up painful memories of the disappearance of her own sister while Cooper's attempts at solving the string of thefts has him being sent time after time after time to try to wrest any tidbit of information from the Oxleys, something that becomes a running joke in the book.
There is a lot to like about this book and this series, and it's a favorite of several of my friends. However, for some strange reason that I cannot put my finger on, I just can't warm up to Diane Fry and Ben Cooper. I love the Peak District, but I've given it four books for me to warm up to these characters, and it's not working. It's time to move on. But don't let that keep you from meeting Cooper and Fry. As I said, several of my friends love it, and there's no reason why you can't, too. ( )