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2000s: Fry and Cooper are back in their 13th outing…..unlucky for them? A summer of endless rain in the Peak District has left Derbyshire’s CID with no forensic evidence…
Already Dead (Cooper and Fry 13)
What you need to know before your trail
Well, it does rain a lot in the Peak District but the recent spell of torrential rain has serious implications for the police since a man’s body has been found but all forensic evidence washed away in the swollen river and flooded roads.
Meanwhile DS Ben Cooper is on extended leave following a tragedy and DS Diane Fry stands in for him, but this makeshift team is about to take on its biggest challenge yet.
One damp August night a passer-by glimpsed a dark outline of a car in the pouring rain. This car could hold the key to the entire case…if they could find it.
Travel Guide
The discovery of a body is found lying naked in “the rural wastelands of the Peak District,” . The area, normally one of natural beauty has been transformed into water and flooded fields for as long as the eye can see.
This rural wasteland is the scene of death for one man and the troubled investigation of Edendale Divisional CID. The body in the swollen stream could well be an accident or even suicide, but events turn to prove that this might not be the case after all. As death comes –
“The great blank space in his mind terrified him”
It is wet and dark and very cold.A faint pattering like thousands of tiny feet can be heard. What is that, where is he? Glen Turner awakens to a drowned world.
Welcome to the Peak District of Stephen Booth –
“The Eden Valley straddled the two distinct geological halves of the Peak District – the limestone hills and wooded dales of the White Peak and the Bleak expanses of peat moors in the Dark Peak”
Light and dark, rain and floods…these are miserable time in the region. It’s remote, dark and unforgiving – even more so for Edendale Divisional CID. Following on from the events of the last book, Dead and Buried, Cooper is on extended sick and it’s clear that injuries go much deeper than first thought. He is showing both physical and mental scars reflected in his behaviour and what he says.
The Peak District is as much a character as Cooper and Fry.
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