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The Kill Call (2009)

by Stephen Booth

Series: Cooper and Fry (9)

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On a rain-swept hillside, hounds from the local foxhunt discover the body of a well-dressed man. At that exact moment, an anonymous caller reports the same body . . . lying half a mile away.

It's only the first in a series of baffling clues as Ben Cooper and Diane Fry??partners and rivals on the detective force ??plunge into a case involving horses, spectacular wealth, and a mysterious "plague village" where a centuries-old outbreak of Black Death has been transformed into a modern tourist attraction.

As the spring rain falls and the body count rises, Cooper and Fry's investigation twists back to the recent past. A killer lurks in the shadows there??a killer now hiding in plain sight . . .

Atmospheric and ingenious, packed with suspense and secrets, The Kill Call is an unforgettable thriller from an unforgettable wri… (more)

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  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
This series is deeply focused on the area (the Peak district), its history, its geography, its people. The mysteries are well thought out, and effective at keeping you guessing. And such interesting characters. ( )
  majkia | Sep 29, 2022 |
About the “failed race horse” meat export to France industry…another on eof those things that you never knew and wished you still didn’t…good book all the same.

The sub story in this one is about the Royal Observer Corps who had a chain of underground “posts” scattered around England, none more that 8 miles apart right up until 1968!. That was the time of Swinging London, Twiggy, the Summer of Love. And at the same time wherever you were inEngland you were never more than 8 miles from at least one if not more of these places. How can that be? After 1968 about half of therm were decommissioned and closed but the remaining 872 were operating right up until 1991.
From 1955 the Corps operated from 1563 ROC underground monitoring ‘posts’ about 7-8 miles apart from each other throughout the UK. In 1968 the Corps was re-organised and about half of the posts were closed . In September 1991 the remaining 872 posts were stood down and were abandoned.

From where I grew up:
Canvey Island:

Vange:

Orsett:

Rainham:

It is truly mind boggling to see exactly how many of them there were around where I lived and I never heard anyone talking about them nor knew of anyone who manned them. There were both male and female observers engaged and stations were mixed gender.



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  Ken-Me-Old-Mate | Sep 24, 2020 |
Another excellent mystery, and not a page of boredom in sight. DS Fry keeps on annoying me, but sometimes she turns into a human being and then I like her again.
DC Cooper is my favourite, how couldn't it be? ( )
  MissYowlYY | Jun 12, 2020 |
Another very atmospheric story set in the author's familiar Peak District landscape, where a man is found dead near a meeting of the local hunt - is there a connection? Fry and Cooper begin looking into the background of the dead man and find no shortage of people who might want him dead. As is usual with Stephen Booth, a very evocative sense of location and character stand out in this tale weaving between current and past until the link is made with history. Recommended. ( )
  edwardsgt | Oct 3, 2011 |
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As with all my previous books, this story would never have seen the light of day without the hard work and support of a whole team of people. This novel is particularly dedicated to my agent, Teresa Chris, to my editor, Julia Wisdom at HarperCollins, and to long-suffering copy editor Anne O'Brien, all of whom have been involved with Cooper and Fry for almost a decade.
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Fiction. Mystery. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:

On a rain-swept hillside, hounds from the local foxhunt discover the body of a well-dressed man. At that exact moment, an anonymous caller reports the same body . . . lying half a mile away.

It's only the first in a series of baffling clues as Ben Cooper and Diane Fry??partners and rivals on the detective force ??plunge into a case involving horses, spectacular wealth, and a mysterious "plague village" where a centuries-old outbreak of Black Death has been transformed into a modern tourist attraction.

As the spring rain falls and the body count rises, Cooper and Fry's investigation twists back to the recent past. A killer lurks in the shadows there??a killer now hiding in plain sight . . .

Atmospheric and ingenious, packed with suspense and secrets, The Kill Call is an unforgettable thriller from an unforgettable wri

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On a rain-swept Derbyshire moor, hounds from the local foxhunt find the body of a well-dressed man whose head has been crushed. Yet an anonymous caller reports the same body lying half a mile away. Called in to investigate the discovery, detectives DS Diane Fry and DC Ben Cooper become entangled in the violent world of hunting and hunt saboteurs, horse theft and a little-known sector of the meat trade.

As Fry follows a complex trail of her own to unravel the shady business interests of the murder victim, Cooper realizes that the answer to the case might lie deep in the past.

History is everywhere around him in the Peak District landscape -- particularly in the 'plague village' of Eyam, where an outbreak of Black Death has been turned into a modern-day tourist attraction. But, even as the final solution is revealed, both Fry and Cooper find themselves having to face up to the disturbing reality of the much more recent past
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