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2000s: The first in the Cooper and Fry series set in the charming, beautiful Peak District, which in the hands of Stephen booth is also quite deadly…
Black Dog (Cooper & Fry 1)
What you need to know before your trail
Fifteen year-old Laura Vernon has disappeared and Detective Constable Ben Cooper fears the worst. Helicopters comb the skies over the Peak District landscape for fears she is lost and disorientated. But when her body is found, the police start an investigation to find out what really happened. They soon draw up a list of suspects for her death but the community is a tight one and answers are hard to come by. The dog walker who found the body, Harry Dickinson is not too helpful and the police are finding it hard to find out more.
There are a lot of buried secrets out in those Peak District lands…
Travel Guide
Eden dale is fictional yet is based on various places in Derbyshire and Stephen tells us it’s somewhere between the Hope and Wye Valley. Bretton Clough is roughly in the right area.
Dog walkers – they’re always on the news for finding bodies in the most unlikely and remote places. In the Peak District where the landscape is a series of peaks and troughs, with valleys, rivers, streams and rugged hills the chances of finding a body with helicopter is unsuccessful and it’s a dog walker who finds the poor girl.
D.C. Diane Fry has just arrive in the area so it is all new to her. She has a new job to do however and has suffered a trauma in her previous role so looking for the body of a young girl in remote and harsh terrain is not going to be the easiest of first jobs she has to do.
Finding the body of any child in the remote landscape is a horrific sight and for the community of Edendale the fact that this girl has been found on their doorstep is hard to accept. But the dog walker, Harry Dickinson who found the girl appears to be hiding something. In fact there are many others in this tight knit community who seem reluctant to talk or help.
What starts out as tricky and sensitive investigation gets harder and harder. In a small village community situated in the picturesque and remote landscapes of Derbyshire, the police have to try and dig deep to find the truth, showing how a rural community stands and falls together.
Frightening that there may be a killer amongst them.
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