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The Devil's Edge (Cooper & Fry) Paperback – September 18, 2012

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In the heart of summer, in the dead of night, something wakes you. The house is quiet. The children are sleeping. The kitchen is empty.
Except for the body on the floor.

A series of brutal home invasions is terrorizing the Peak District. Until now, the burglars haven't left a clue. This time, they've left a corpse. But as the death toll rises, two intrepid cops begin to suspect that the robberies - and the murders - are not what they seem. Beneath the scorching summer sun, a dangerous game is in play . . . and a merciless killer is hiding in plain sight.

Packed with twists, suspense, and danger, The Devil's Edge is a gripping thriller to rival the very best of Peter Robinson and Peter James.

PRAISE FOR STEPHEN BOOTH

'A modern master' Guardian

'Wonderful' Daily Mail

'One of our best storytellers' Sunday Telegraph

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September 18, 2012
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In Booth's accomplished 11th novel featuring Det. Sgt. Ben Cooper and Det. Sgt. Diane Fry (after 2010's Lost River), a gang of burglars dubbed the Savages by the media has been robbing homes in the rural Peak District, using violence when necessary to get in and out quickly. An attack at an expensive house in Riddings that kills Zoe Barron and leaves husband Jake with serious head injuries ups the stakes. When interviews with the few scattered neighbors reveal surprising animosities and disagreements, Cooper begins to suspect the attack on the Barrons wasn't a typical home invasion, though his superiors disagree. Meanwhile, fears that edgy residents might take matters into their own hands prove true and involve Cooper's brother, Matt. Besides rendering Cooper and Fry as fully realized characters, Booth makes even minor characters as distinct and sharp as the jagged rocks of the Riddings Edge. Agent: Teresa Chris, Teresa Chris Literary. (Dec.)

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Besides rendering Cooper and Fry as fully realized characters, Booth makes even minor characters as distinct and sharp as the jagged rocks of the Riddings Edge.―PW on The Devil's Edge

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0751545643
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sphere; Reprint edition (September 18, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 496 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780751545647
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0751545647
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.3 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5 x 1.25 x 7.88 inches

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Stephen Booth is an award winning UK crime writer, the creator of Derbyshire police detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry, who have appeared in 18 novels set in England's atmospheric Peak District. His latest novel DROWNED LIVES is a standalone historical thriller, a story of hidden family secrets among the inland waterways of South Staffordshire.

Stephen has been a Gold Dagger finalist, an Anthony Award nominee, twice winner of a Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel, and twice shortlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year. DC Cooper was a finalist for the Sherlock Award for the best detective created by a British author, and in 2003 the Crime Writers' Association presented Stephen with the Dagger in the Library Award for "the author whose books have given readers the most pleasure". The Cooper & Fry novels are published all around the world, and have been translated into 16 languages. The latest title in the series is FALL DOWN DEAD. Stephen is also the author of a previous standalone crime novel TOP HARD.

A former newspaper journalist, Stephen Booth was born in the Lancashire mill town of Burnley and brought up by the sea in Blackpool. He attended Birmingham City University and worked on local newspapers in the North and Midlands of England before his first novel BLACK DOG was published in 2000. He lives in Nottinghamshire.

Visit the author's website at: http://www.stephen-booth.com

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The Landscape of Good and Evil

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 20, 2014

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A few years ago I picked up Booth's "Blood on the Tongue"--and it was so compelling that I have made a point of reading all of the rest of the Cooper and Fry novels.

Besides that these books are very well written (fresh, vivid description; believable, complex characters), I find the way Booth uses the landscape of the Peaks area as another brooding character in his stories to be very powerful.

"Devil's Edge" uses such a feature of landscape--the edge at the top of a high, Rocky escarpment on the dark side of the moor, overlooking the village of Ridding--as a personification of temptation to do evil. The strong allusion is to the New Testament passage about the temptation of Christ in the wilderness, wherein the Devil takes him to a high place and shows him all the kingdom's of Earth.

In this particular mystery, Ben Cooper must figure out the complicated and secretive dealings between (mostly) nouveaux riche members of the village community as well as the criminal activities of a brutal gang of burglars. The murders he is investigating do not quite fit the pattern, and Ben has an excellent, intuitive grasp of pattern!

At the beginning of the story, Fry is working on transfer in the city. As always, her personal demons cause her to get ejected from her new assignment and she is sent back to Edendale--which, for her, is very far from "Eden."

As always, I very much enjoyed reading this installment of the Cooper-Fry saga. The reason why I give it 4 stars rather than 5:

~a fair number of times the story-line/Ben's thought processes make unexplained or totally inexplicable leaps--and I do not mean leaps in keeping with Ben's intuitive character. These leaps are more like the gaps in the continuity of a video when the pixels break up for a few seconds or minutes, even!

~in the end, the dark symbolism and gravitas of the Devil's Edge landscape as used by Booth is almost too weighty for the crime story which unfolds. In fact the crime/s in this novel are, if not totally impulsive, at least rather accidental in nature. They are more an example of that well known "banality of evil" and the landscape for such crimes is far greyer, flatter, and more ironic than the satanic cliffs of the Dark Peaks.

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One too many murders -- one too many girlfriends?

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 30, 2012

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Someone is breaking into a gated community in Riddings. This time a woman is found dead and DC Ben Cooper has been dispatched to investigate. The press has labeled the invaders the "Savages." Every town has its resident snoop and Riddings is no different. Barry Gamble was on the scene right after Zoe Barron was murdered. If Ben wants to know anything about anyone in Riddings, he only has to ask Gamble. Diane Fry is fulfilling her goal of climbing up the ladder but she is finding all she does is push papers around and seldom can sink her teeth into a good case. A little disagreement with a fellow cop at a conference finds her back in E Division as the press liaison and soon has a suspect in the break-ins. Ben's family and personal life are also in turmoil. His brother, Matt, isn't doing good with the farm during the sinking economy, and shoots what he thinks are trespassers. Ben is now engaged but not too eager to spread the word past his immediate family. Liz appears to be a whiny clinger, someone who is already getting a bit angered by the amount of time Ben spends on the job. And a friend from high school has just been hired to join his team. Carol Villiers served overseas and is now a widow. Ben has his own theories on the home invasions and isn't so sure the Savages are to blame. I had always thought since the first book in the series that Ben and Diane would have a love/hate relationship that might evolve into more love than hate. Now Liz and Carol are also in the picture and much to Ben's fear, Diane appears to be cozying up to Carol. Exactly what is Ben afraid Diane might learn? Another great installment in the Ben Cooper/Diane Fry series.

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K. Sandness

Another Fine Volume in the Peak District Series

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 25, 2015

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Another fine entry in one of my favorite series (after "Lost River" and before "Dead and Buried"), one that both contains a rich cast of characters and concerns itself with social issues facing the modern world. In this book, a local village has been largely become a bedroom community for the affluent, and it has been plagued by burglaries and home invasions that are believed to be the work of a gang from Sheffield. When one of the affluent residents is murdered and another is injured in what seems like a home invasion, the police at first suspect the gang members, but it soon becomes apparent that this suspicion does not fit the facts of the case and that relations among the village residents, not only between the newcomers and the old residents, but among the newcomers themselves, are less than friendly.
Unfortunately, I read "Dead and Buried" early in my introduction to the series, so some of the scenes here take on an added poignancy, as I know what happens to one of the characters later. I recommend the series, but it should be read in order to watch the characters develop and to understand references to previous cases.

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One of the more engaging (and shorter) stories in the series.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 12, 2015

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This was one of the most engaging stories in the series. And at 350 pages, one of the shorter ones.

Even so, Booth still spends too many words detailing the topography. While some of it is necessary to understand the setting, he describes a mile long mountain ridge when the important action takes place over only ten feet of that ridge. At the rate Booth is going, he’ll have described every square millimeter of Ben Cooper’s world by book fifteen. Booth also gives us too many long interior monologs from Cooper and Fry. Both are overkill, slowing the forward momentum of the story.

And I’m not sure what is happening with Diane Fry. She’s more a secondary character here than one of the mainstays of the series. But as I’ve said in several earlier reviews, her attitude to others and behavior are getting annoying. I hope the author changes that soon.

And one flub jumped out at me: In the earliest books, Booth had Fry driving a Peugeot then in the last couple books put her in an Audi. In this book, she’s back in the Peugeot. Did you forget you’d had her buy a new car, Mr. Booth?

Despite my complaints, I’ll continue reading this series.

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Noel

Peaks and troughs

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 26, 2013

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This is the second Cooper & Fry book I have read and I read it while in hospital with a fractured leg. I was well and truly a captive audience. Unfortunately I still found it less than gripping.

It started really well with a violent murder on a dark night in the course of a burglary in a wealthy village in the Peak District. At first it seems that this is the latest of a series of robberies in the area but marks a dramatic change in tactics by the thieves. Ben Cooper thinks the explanation lies elsewhere. The village folk are a collection of the wealthy, the nouveau riche and eccentric. Several have skeletons in their cupboards which get aired before the 'final reveal' but for me the progress of the story was ponderous and the end was a bit flat.

Earlier this year I read 'Dead and Buried' Dead And Buried (Cooper and Fry) which follows this book in the series. So the back story I missed in 'Dead and Buried' was in part filled in by 'The Devil's Edge'. This series is set in the Peak District and in both books the setting and its moods and changes dominate the story. The landscape gets more descriptive attention than most of the main characters. The sense of place is an important element of the story telling but I've felt with both these books that it is overdone to the detriment of development of the plot and action. There was a good story there struggling to escape from the peaks.

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Tipped over the Edge?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 9, 2012

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I have read all of Stephen Booth's Cooper and Fry novels and look forward to a new one.
But I have to confess that this one left me just slightly disappointed. It was still very evocative of the location (one of my all time favourite places), but although the plot kept me guessing I didn't find it had me sitting up late turning the pages, or hung around in my head after I'd finished. Ben, as the main character, seemed to be in a confused state and this somehow rubbed off on the book so it lost some momentum. It felt as if this volume is just a fill-in to line something up for a later one. Won't stop me buying the next, but I'll be hoping that the magic (and Diane Fry) is back from the side-lines.

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Wish I had read them in order

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 16, 2014

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I am a member of a book readers group, and this was our chosen book. I can't cope with actual books now, my Kindle is so easy, so I downloaded it for ease of reading.
I enjoyed the book, especially as its set in the peak district, which I know. I realise this is one of a series, I would like to read them all in order, but as a stand alone book it was great, a really good read, and I never guessed "who dunnit"

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Cal

Well written, but dull.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 21, 2014

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I am finding this book quite hard work. It is painfully slow. It is certainly not "gripping". I have not finished reading it yet, but I will, because even though it verges on boring, and I am losing track of who is who with the mass of characters involved, it is written in an easy style with decent use of language. This is my first book by this author. It is unlikely I will buy any more.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 31, 2022

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Ben and Diane start at the first book all good reads

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