Secrets of Death

'This is crime writing of the highest quality' n Daily Mail n n 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. n n A beautiful place to die . . . n n 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. n n 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... n n But what are the mysterious Secrets of Death? n n And is there one victim whose fate wasn't suicide at all? n n 'Makes high summer as terrifying as midwinter' n Val McDermid n n 'A modern master' n Guardian n n 'A first rate mystery n Sunday Telegraph n n 'Ingenious Plotting and richly atmospheric' n Reginald Hill n