Blood on the Tongue is a complex, atmospheric police procedural
perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson.
It's a new year for Peak District detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry,
and that means new murders to solve in the icy depths of a bitter winter
in Edendale, Derbyshire.
It isn't the easiest way to commit suicide, but the dead woman seems to
have simply curled up in the freezing snow and lain there until her
heart stopped. There was no one to observe her death but the foxes and
the hares. Yet she is riddled with bruises. Cooper and Fry are put on
the case but they have as much questions about the abuse the woman might
have suffered in life as they do the circumstances of her death.
The unidentified body of a dead man is found by the roadside. And an
intriguing young woman arrives in Edendale desperate to solve a decades
old puzzle that has haunted her family: a Royal Air Force bomber crashed
into Edendale, in the same spot where the frozen corpse was found,
killing everybody on board except for the pilot, who supposedly walked
away from the wreck and was never seen again. With colds and flus and
holiday plans thinning out the ranks of the Edendale police force,
Cooper and Fry are scrambling to find an explanation for the two recent
deaths while being pulled deeper into the mysteries of the past.
Rich with multiple intertwining mysteries, this Cooper and Fry thriller
has all of psychological suspense and three dimensional characters that
fans have come to expect from Stephen Booth--a master of his craft.
