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Stephen Booth was born in 1952, in Burnley, Lancashire, England.
Stephen Booth
Stephen Booth
Stephen Booth
Stephen Booth
40 St James Rd, Blackpool FY4 2DU, Великобритания
Stephen Booth attended Arnold School.
15 Bartholomew Row, Birmingham B5 5JU, United Kingdom
Stephen earned a Bachelor's degree at the City of Birmingham Polytechnic (now Birmingham City University)
(Dark, intense and utterly compelling, Black Dog was an ex...)
Dark, intense and utterly compelling, Black Dog was an extraordinary first novel from a writer who has rapidly become the most promising crime author to emerge in the genre in years.
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2000
(The second in the series set in the Derbyshire Peak Distr...)
The second in the series set in the Derbyshire Peak District, Dancing with the Virgins is a tense psychological follow-up to Stephen Booth’s acclaimed debut Black Dog.
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2001
(It wasn’t the easiest way to commit suicide. Marie Tennen...)
It wasn’t the easiest way to commit suicide. Marie Tennent seemed to have just curled up in the freezing snow on Irontongue Hill and stayed there until her body was frosted over like a supermarket chicken. And hers isn’t the only death the police have to contend with either – not after the discovery of a baby in the wreckage of an old Airforce bomber, and the body of a man dumped by a roadside.
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2002
(A death in the family-from-hell bring Detectives Fry and ...)
A death in the family-from-hell bring Detectives Fry and Cooper to a remote and unfriendly rural community in their fourth psychological thriller.
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2003
(The anonymous caller who taunts the Police with talk of a...)
The anonymous caller who taunts the Police with talk of an imminent killing could be a hoaxer, his descriptions of death and decomposition a sick fantasy. But Detective Diane Fry is certain she’s dealing with a murderer. The voice – so eerily, shiveringly calm – invites the police to meet the ‘flesh eater’. Fry fears it may already be too late to save the next victim.
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2005
(Detectives Fry and Cooper return in another supremely atm...)
Detectives Fry and Cooper return in another supremely atmospheric Peak District thriller, perfect for fans of Peter Robinson and Reginald Hill.
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2007
(A summer of endless rain in the Peak District leaves the ...)
A summer of endless rain in the Peak District leaves the officers of Derbyshire's CID with a problem. They have discovered a man's body lying in shallow water, but torrential rain has swollen the rivers and flooded the roads, making travel difficult and forensic examination impossible.
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2013
(Ben Cooper and his team from Derbyshire Constabulary's E ...)
Ben Cooper and his team from Derbyshire Constabulary's E Division return in this gripping new page-turner from the master of the genre.
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2015
(Steeped in the atmosphere of the stunning Peak District, ...)
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.
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2016
(Master crime writer Stephen Booth ventures into the Peak ...)
Master crime writer Stephen Booth ventures into the Peak District's dark subterranean world for a brand new, stunning and gasp-inducing Cooper & Fry thriller.
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2017
(The dramatic, gripping new Cooper & Fry crime thriller fr...)
The dramatic, gripping new Cooper & Fry crime thriller from bestseller Stephen Booth sees the stunning Peak District prove fatal for one walking party.
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2018
Stephen Booth was born in 1952, in Burnley, Lancashire, England.
Stephen Booth attended Arnold School and earned a Bachelor's degree at the City of Birmingham Polytechnic (now Birmingham City University).
Starting work on his first newspaper in Wilmslow, Cheshire, in 1974, Stephen was a specialist rugby union reporter, as well as working night shifts as a sub-editor on the Daily Express and The Guardian. This was followed by periods with local newspapers in Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. He was at various times Production Editor of the Farming Guardian magazine, Regional Secretary of the British Guild of Editors, and one of the UK's first qualified assessors in Production Journalism.
Freelance work began with rugby reports for national newspapers and local radio stations. Stephen has also had articles and photographs published in a wide range of specialist magazines, from Scottish Memories to Countrylovers Magazine, from Cat World to Canal and Riverboat, and one short story broadcast on BBC radio. In 1999, his writing career changed direction when, in rapid succession, he was shortlisted for the Dundee Book Prize and the Crime Writers' Association Debut Dagger competition for new writers, then won the £5,000 Lichfield Prize for his unpublished novel The Only Dead Thing, and signed a two-book contract with HarperCollins for a series of crime novels.
In 2000, Stephen's first published novel, Black Dog, marked the arrival in print of his best-known creations - two young Derbyshire police detectives, DC Ben Cooper and DS Diane Fry. Subsequent titles have been One Last Breath, The Dead Place, Scared to Live, Dying to Sin, The Kill Call, Lost River, The Devil’s Edge, Dead and Buried, Already Dead, The Corpse Bridge, The Murder Road, Secrets of Death and Dead in the Dark. The 18th Cooper & Fry novel Fall Down Dead was published in the UK in 2018. A special Ben Cooper story, Claws, was released in 2007 to launch the new ‘Crime Express’ imprint, and re-issued in April 2011. All the Cooper & Fry novels are set in England's beautiful and atmospheric Peak District. A new standalone novel Drowned Lives was published in August 2019.
In recent years, Stephen Booth has become a Library Champion in support of the UK’s ‘Love Libraries’ campaign, and a Reading Champion to support the National Year of Reading. He has also represented British literature at the Helsinki Book Fair in Finland, filmed a documentary for 20th Century Fox on the French detective Vidocq, taken part in online chats for World Book Day, and given talks at many conferences, conventions, libraries, bookshops and festivals around the world.
Booth is also a director of the regional writer development agency Writing East Midlands and teaches crime writing courses in the region, as well as leading workshops for writers' groups, at writing festivals, and in prisons.
(Dark, intense and utterly compelling, Black Dog was an ex...)
2000(The second in the series set in the Derbyshire Peak Distr...)
2001(Steeped in the atmosphere of the stunning Peak District, ...)
2016(Master crime writer Stephen Booth ventures into the Peak ...)
2017(The anonymous caller who taunts the Police with talk of a...)
2005(The dramatic, gripping new Cooper & Fry crime thriller fr...)
2018(A death in the family-from-hell bring Detectives Fry and ...)
2003(Detectives Fry and Cooper return in another supremely atm...)
2007(Ben Cooper and his team from Derbyshire Constabulary's E ...)
2015(A dark psychological thriller featuring Diane Fry and Ben...)
2006(Major new psychological Peak District thriller from the a...)
2004(Set in and around the dark, misty canals of Lichfield, St...)
2019(A summer of endless rain in the Peak District leaves the ...)
2013(The Devil's Edge is a gripping thriller to rival the very...)
2011(An atmospheric new Fry and Cooper thriller for fans of Pe...)
2009(An atmospheric Fry and Cooper thriller for fans of Peter ...)
2010(It wasn’t the easiest way to commit suicide. Marie Tennen...)
2002Stephen Booth served on the British Goat Society's governing body and judged at shows all over Britain. He has been chairman of several clubs, including the charity fund-raising Just Kidding Goat Society, and probably his most unusual role was as a director of an artificial insemination company. Specialist publications he's been responsible for include a book on one of the country's oldest goat breeds, The Toggenburg. Booth is a former President of the Toggenburg Breeders Society.
Booth has said that working on the serial murder story had a direct influence on his leap to fiction writing. He began to look at the subject in a new light when his wife pointed out that even he could be a suspect in the case, and that she couldn’t provide him with an alibi during the hours he worked the night shift.
While living on a smallholding in Yorkshire, Stephen began breeding pedigree dairy goats as a hobby. He later served on the British Goat Society's governing body and judged at shows all over Britain.
Booth is married to Lesley Booth.