Secrets of Death

‘This is crime writing of the highest quality’
Daily Mail

Steeped in the atmosphere of the stunning Peak District, Secrets of Death is master crime writer Stephen Booth’s most daring and clever Cooper & Fry thriller yet.

A beautiful place to die . . .

Residents of the Peak District are used to tourists descending on its soaring hills and brooding valleys. However, this summer brings a different kind of visitor to the idyllic landscape, leaving behind bodies and secrets.

A series of suicides throughout the Peaks throws Detective Inspector Ben Cooper and his team in Derbyshire’s E Division into a race against time to find a connection to these seemingly random acts – with no way of predicting where the next body will turn up. Meanwhile, in Nottingham Detective Sergeant Diane Fry finds a key witness has vanished…

But what are the mysterious Secrets of Death?

And is there one victim whose fate wasn’t suicide at all?

‘Makes high summer as terrifying as midwinter’
Val McDermid

‘A modern master’
Guardian

‘A first rate mystery
Sunday Telegraph

‘Ingenious Plotting and richly atmospheric’
Reginald Hill