9780957237902: Black Dog
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ISBN 10 : 0957237901 ISBN 13 : 9780957237902
Editeur : Westlea Books, 2012

Synopsis

The first novel in the multiple award-winning Cooper and Fry series, set in England's beautiful and atmospheric Peak District.

It's been a long, hot summer in the Peak District national park. But summer comes to an end when the body of missing teenager Laura Vernon is found.

For young police detective Ben Cooper, the work has just begun. His community is hiding a girl's killer, and a past as dark as the Derbyshire night. It seems Laura was the keeper of secrets beyond her years and, in a case where no-one is innocent, everyone is a suspect.

But Cooper's local knowledge and instincts are about to face an even greater challenge. The ambitious DC Diane Fry has been transferred from a nearby city, a woman as ruthless as she is attractive…

"Dark, intense and utterly compelling", Black Dog is an extraordinary first novel from a writer who has rapidly become one of the UK's most successful crime writers.

*Winner of the Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel of 2000

*Finalist for the Anthony Award for Best First Mystery of 2000

"Suspenseful and supremely engaging. Booth does a wonderful job." - Los Angeles Times

"Simultaneously classic, contemporary and haunting." - Mysterious Bookshop, New York

"A brilliant writer who gets everything - atmosphere, character, plot - just right. This book took my breath away." - Black Orchid Bookshop, New York

"An atmospheric, psychological stunner." - The Bookseller

"Stephen Booth makes high summer in Derbyshire as dark and terrifying as midwinter." - Val McDermid, award-winning crime novelist

"Black Dog sinks its teeth into you and doesn't let you go. A dark star is born!" - Reginald Hill, creator of Dalziel and Pascoe

"Black Dog is an exceedingly good first novel. Wholly engrossing." - London Evening Standard

"This is intelligent crime fiction at its best. It was a book I found impossible to put down." - Sherlock Magazine

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The first novel in the multiple award-winning Cooper and Fry series, set in England's beautiful and atmospheric Peak District.

It's been a long, hot summer in the Peak District national park. But summer comes to an end when the body of missing teenager Laura Vernon is found.

For young police detective Ben Cooper, the work has just begun. His community is hiding a girl's killer, and a past as dark as the Derbyshire night. It seems Laura was the keeper of secrets beyond her years and, in a case where no-one is innocent, everyone is a suspect.

But Cooper's local knowledge and instincts are about to face an even greater challenge. The ambitious DC Diane Fry has been transferred from a nearby city, a woman as ruthless as she is attractive...

"Dark, intense and utterly compelling", Black Dog is an extraordinary first novel from a writer who has rapidly become one of the UK's most successful crime writers.

*Winner of the Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel of 2000

*Finalist for the Anthony Award for Best First Mystery of 2000

"Suspenseful and supremely engaging. Booth does a wonderful job." - Los Angeles Times

"Simultaneously classic, contemporary and haunting." - Mysterious Bookshop, New York

"A brilliant writer who gets everything - atmosphere, character, plot - just right. This book took my breath away." - Black Orchid Bookshop, New York

"An atmospheric, psychological stunner." - The Bookseller

"Stephen Booth makes high summer in Derbyshire as dark and terrifying as midwinter." - Val McDermid, award-winning crime novelist

"Black Dog sinks its teeth into you and doesn't let you go. A dark star is born!" - Reginald Hill, creator of Dalziel and Pascoe

"Black Dog is an exceedingly good first novel. Wholly engrossing." - London Evening Standard

"This is intelligent crime fiction at its best. It was a book I found impossible to put down." - Sherlock Magazine

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Si la région de Peak District en Angleterre et son célèbre parc national sont accueillants pour les touristes, la contrée est surtout peuplée de fermes et abrite des gens simples qui n'aiment pas les nouveaux venus. Surtout lorsqu'ils sont riches et arrogants ! C'est le cas de la famille Vernon, dont la fille Laura, quinze ans, a disparu. Les recherches de la police sont infructueuses jusqu'à ce que, Jess, le chien du vieux Harry Dickinson, trouve une des baskets de l'adolescente, puis son cadavre. Le constable Ben Cooper, enfant du pays, juge l'attitude du vieil homme suspecte. Il est rétif à toute question, se contente de traiter la famille Vernon de "salauds de riches", et semble dissimuler un secret. La police apprend que le jeune jardinier des Vernon, Lee Sherratt, a disparu après avoir été renvoyé parce qu'il s'intéressait à Laura d'un peu trop près. Mais la famille Vernon a aussi ses mystères quelque peu sulfureux. Ben Cooper et sa coéquipière, la très urbaine Diane Fry, les feront tous voler en éclat.

Nouveau venu dans la littérature policière britannique, Stephen Booth tient bien son rang et décrit, avec un talent prometteur, les arcanes très "british" des mentalités provinciales anglaises. --Claude Mesplède

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Éditeur
Westlea Books
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0957237901
ISBN 13 
9780957237902
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
386
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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9780006514329: Black Dog (Cooper and Fry Crime Series)

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0006514324 ISBN 13 :  9780006514329
Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2001
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