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    Dead and Buried: A Cooper & Fry Mystery

    By Stephen Booth

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    As wildfires ravage the Peak District's idyllic national park, hundreds of firefighters and park rangers fight to keep the blaze from reaching a historic inn, a landmark that has been boarded up for years. For weeks now, acts of arson have destroyed miles of land, and once the flames die down, a grim surprise awaits detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry—a body, dead for years.

    Taut and twisting, Dead and Buried is perfect for fans of Ian Rankin and Peter Robinson.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 30, 2014
    ISBN9780062303158
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    Dead and Buried: A Cooper & Fry Mystery
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    Stephen Booth

    Stephen Booth's fourteen novels featuring Cooper and Fry, all to be published by Witness, have sold over half a million copies around the world.

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    • 2/5
      A challenge for a mystery series writer is to keep the protagonist's story moving along for regular readers, but still make it accessible to new readers who may come into the series without reading earlier books. In Dead and Buried, the 13th in the Ben Cooper/Diane Fry series set in the Peak District in England, author Stephen Booth has crafted a story that any new reader will have no trouble following. Unfortunately, those who have read earlier books in the series are likely to be frustrated by the unchanging negative dynamic in the relationship between Ben Cooper and Diane Fry.Just when Fry thought she'd finally escaped Edendale, its sheep and all the colleagues she disdained in Edendale's CID, she's dragged back. She's now part of a regional Major Crimes unit, called in when evidence is found relating to the high-profile disappearance of a tourist couple on the moors near Edendale over two years earlier. That disappearance happened in a Christmastime blizzard, which is hard for Ben Cooper's imagination to picture now that it's a hot, dry summer and dangerous moorland fires keep popping up. The investigation takes on a new dimension when a local man is found murdered in the Lighthouse, a now-closed pub that was connected to the disappearance of the couple.Ben Cooper, newly promoted to Detective Sergeant, is about to be married to Scene of Crime technician Liz Petty, and is a little distracted by all the wedding and house planning. But not so distracted as to fail to be annoyed at being put in an essentially subordinate position to Fry. For him, it's not so much that Diane is in an important position and is running the investigation, as that her elevation hasn't changed Diane a bit. She is still hostile to everyone on the Edendale force, including (or even especially) Ben. She never misses a chance to make sarcastic and demeaning remarks, to dismiss any suggestions made by anyone else and to let everyone know just what she thinks of Edendale and everyone in it. If anything, Diane's bad attitude is worse than ever.The mystery story here was promising, but I found it too easy to figure out what happened and whodunnit---and I'm usually no genius at that sort of thing. There was a piece of the story line that was just dropped, as if it was a red herring, even though it felt more like an additional thread that would be pursued to a separate conclusion. And the ending was jarringly abrupt.Booth's writing is vividly descriptive and was put to good use in this story, with the moorland wildfires playing a part throughout the book. Booth's descriptions of the smoke, sometimes insinuating and other times overwhelming and menacing, were evocative. I just wish he'd use his writing power to go somewhere new with Ben Cooper and Diane Fry, especially Fry. She's painted as a talented, but extremely bitter person who tries to make life as miserable for everyone around her as it seems to be for her. I'm just bored and annoyed with her nasty cracks and the way Ben Cooper seethes but never confronts her. We've been there, done that, all too many times at this point. I got the faintest glimmer at the end of the book that this stagnant negative dynamic may be about to change; that Ben's anger may boil over now. I hope that happens and that it's the catalyst for real change in the relationship between these two characters. I'll give Booth one more chance to make that happen.
    • 3/5
      Packed with specialities of the peak district - fell running, mines, lonely pubs on the moor, I forget what else. I did wonder if the author was trying to pack everything in to one last book before killing everyone off! However he still hasn't covered well dressing so there's at least one more book left. However I still enjoyed it a lot and look forward to the next one.
    • 4/5
      Dead and Buried by Stephen BoothCooper and Fry series Book #124★'sFrom The Book:Brutal acts of firestarting have ravaged the Peak District, and now a new wave of moorland infernos sweeps across the national park. For DS Ben Cooper, the blazes are best left to the firefighters, even with the arsonists still at large. But when an intruder breaks into an abandoned pub, Cooper is on the case—and he swiftly unearths a pair of grim surprises. The first is evidence of a years-old double homicide, and the second is a corpse, newly dead. What links the three deaths? Where are the missing bodies? Who is responsible—and how do the raging fires fit in? For Cooper and his rival DI Diane Fry, it's the most twisted investigation of their lives, and with an ingenious killer pulling the strings, it could also be their last.My Views:This is another series that I have been a long time reader of and for the most part can't find fault with any of the actual writing or the story itself. The thing that has bothered me more and more from the beginning is Diane Fry's treatment of Ben Cooper. She is ambitious and wants to make grade quickly but her character needs to become a bit more human and respectful of her partner. She was specially vicious in this installment so her behavior is escalating and it's beginning to take away from what was an excellent story line with a really surprising ending. Hopefully she will have cooled her heels a bit by the next one.
    • 2/5
      A challenge for a mystery series writer is to keep the protagonist's story moving along for regular readers, but still make it accessible to new readers who may come into the series without reading earlier books. In Dead and Buried, the 13th in the Ben Cooper/Diane Fry series set in the Peak District in England, author Stephen Booth has crafted a story that any new reader will have no trouble following. Unfortunately, those who have read earlier books in the series are likely to be frustrated by the unchanging negative dynamic in the relationship between Ben Cooper and Diane Fry.Just when Fry thought she'd finally escaped Edendale, its sheep and all the colleagues she disdained in Edendale's CID, she's dragged back. She's now part of a regional Major Crimes unit, called in when evidence is found relating to the high-profile disappearance of a tourist couple on the moors near Edendale over two years earlier. That disappearance happened in a Christmastime blizzard, which is hard for Ben Cooper's imagination to picture now that it's a hot, dry summer and dangerous moorland fires keep popping up. The investigation takes on a new dimension when a local man is found murdered in the Lighthouse, a now-closed pub that was connected to the disappearance of the couple.Ben Cooper, newly promoted to Detective Sergeant, is about to be married to Scene of Crime technician Liz Petty, and is a little distracted by all the wedding and house planning. But not so distracted as to fail to be annoyed at being put in an essentially subordinate position to Fry. For him, it's not so much that Diane is in an important position and is running the investigation, as that her elevation hasn't changed Diane a bit. She is still hostile to everyone on the Edendale force, including (or even especially) Ben. She never misses a chance to make sarcastic and demeaning remarks, to dismiss any suggestions made by anyone else and to let everyone know just what she thinks of Edendale and everyone in it. If anything, Diane's bad attitude is worse than ever.The mystery story here was promising, but I found it too easy to figure out what happened and whodunnit---and I'm usually no genius at that sort of thing. There was a piece of the story line that was just dropped, as if it was a red herring, even though it felt more like an additional thread that would be pursued to a separate conclusion. And the ending was jarringly abrupt.Booth's writing is vividly descriptive and was put to good use in this story, with the moorland wildfires playing a part throughout the book. Booth's descriptions of the smoke, sometimes insinuating and other times overwhelming and menacing, were evocative. I just wish he'd use his writing power to go somewhere new with Ben Cooper and Diane Fry, especially Fry. She's painted as a talented, but extremely bitter person who tries to make life as miserable for everyone around her as it seems to be for her. I'm just bored and annoyed with her nasty cracks and the way Ben Cooper seethes but never confronts her. We've been there, done that, all too many times at this point. I got the faintest glimmer at the end of the book that this stagnant negative dynamic may be about to change; that Ben's anger may boil over now. I hope that happens and that it's the catalyst for real change in the relationship between these two characters. I'll give Booth one more chance to make that happen.
    • 4/5
      Fires are burning across the moorland in this next installment in the Ben Cooper/Diane Fry series. The Light House is a pub that has been closed for a couple years but now it is in the path of the fires. Although the police have checked the area as the fires died down, it was Diane who entered the pub and found a body. Diane is her usual ambitious, caustic self and it’s usually Ben who is the target of most of her barbs. Gavin Murfin is counting the days until his retirement and is enjoying trading barbs with Diane. Murfin remembers the Light House quite well. Two years ago David and Trisha Pearson disappeared on a Christmas night and their bodies were never found. But the discovery of some of their belongings has Cooper and Fry trying to figure out if the current homicide and the Pearson’s disappearance are connected. Meanwhile Ben’s fiancée, Liz, is busy planning their upcoming wedding. Early on in the series I had thought Ben would be the one to thaw out Diane so I was surprised when Liz was thrown into the mix. As usual suspects lie and dangers abound as the bodies of David and Trisha are unearthed. Diane and Ben lock horns as Diane fights over investigative territories but it’s the ending that changes people’s lives and leaves the reader with one important question: What happens to Ben next?
    • 2/5
      parts of this are great, and some of the scenes could happen in no other setting between people from no where else in the world. Another reviewer said it better than I can " literature has to be more than just wild characters with wild stories" I wasn't exactly expecting great literature when I picked this up and I was surprised by the book's literary intent, but I'd still rather read [practical demonkeeping] for the tenth time.
    • 4/5
      Denis Johnson. Denis fucking Johnson! How can you smile like some frat boy on the back of your book? You have truths and demons and angels in your head! How can you smile so smugly? With this book you have given me hope for modern literature. You have given me hope for art, for humanity. Of all of the living writers (I should specify fiction writers) that I rate seriously talented: 1) Nick Tosches, 2) Denis Johnson; 3) A.M. Homes; 4) Madeline Gins; 5) Deborah Levy. That's it. There are no more! "Already Dead" is a screaming mugging of Nietzsche's "Thus Spake Zarathustra". It is a mind-blowing bitch-slap to today's modernity. Thank you Denis, smile and all. You've got it. For good or evil, you have it.
    • 4/5
      This is a big, sprawling West Coast sort of a mess. You can almost smell the pot smoke wafting out from between the pages. The characters and situations are larger and more colorful than life, you know, like how things look when you've got a righteous buzz on. Yes, it's confusing at times. Yes, it could be tighter. But in true DJ style, Already Dead's surface craziness mask an fascinating look at the connection between the spiritual and the hedonistic.
    • 4/5
      Rarely does one encounter fiction which transports the reader completely outside themselves, immersing them in vividly captured landscapes of Redwoods & rolling ridges rising out of hazy Pacific waters in the distance; it's as if we're right there ourselves, a character, viewing the Lost Coast of Northern California through our own eyes and not the eyes of Denis Johnson's creations. Each time I opened Already Dead, I forgot about my life and what I had been or was about to be doing. I was transfixed in the reading, completely in the moment, page by page, word by word. I wasn't reading so much as going out-of-body, watching events transpire around me. No, I'm not stoned on incense and marijuana, like so many of the ruined lives in Already Dead. High art transports its audience outside themselves, and Denis Johnson is high art in my book; he has an amazing ability to take us into lives and landscapes composed from the material in ephemeral eternities, places where we get pleasantly lost, where realities blend with the surreal so that the former becomes indecipherable from the latter, and new perspectives, world views are forged. I could blather on about the plot, the much praised poetic language, how the Lost Coast of California's a perfect metaphor for the lives Johnson describes -- and these are all indeed vital elements worthy of discussion and analysis (and they're discussed elsewhere here in LT) -- but these elements pale in impact to what Already Dead elicits out of its more sympathetic readers: an almost altered state of consciousness; a state of what amounts to Zen meditation; spiritual transcendence. I've never considered myself a spiritual/mystical person, but I''ve discovered that in reading Denis Johnson and Already Dead, I may be more the mystic than I ever realized.
    • 5/5
      With language that is luminous at times, Johnson contrasts the beauty of coastal Northern California with the substance and rage induced behavior of some inhabitants. Although not really a crime novel there is plenty of crime to go around. Johnson mostly concerns himself with the demons in his characters and how most of them unsuccessfully attempt to keep them at bay, or not.
    • 4/5
      Welcome to the Hotel California …Johnson must not think much of Northern Californians, the entire cast of Already Dead is misogynistic, drug addled, possessed by demons, or just flat-out insane. That’s not to say that it’s not an enjoyable read, his use of language is often stunning, it’s just that there isn’t anyone in the book to root for. Halfway through the 435-page novel, I was hoping a tidal wave would just sweep all of them out into the Pacific Ocean. And yet …And yet I just kept reading.
    • 4/5
      Coming from Jesus' Son, Already Dead was much stranger than I expected. It does take a while to get into, is perhaps overly long/wordy in some spots, and is certainly a complex a read, but the reading experience as a whole is an interesting engagement with both language and character. There are passages that I found myself rereading--either to catch my place, or to simply revisit the language, and the writing overall is pulled together so tightly that it's easy to lose yourself in the story and the flow of time that the author sets up. For anyone who'd enjoy something a little bit strange and a little bit dark with some incredible writing along the way, I'd recommend this highly--just pick it up when you have some time to devote to it. This isn't one of those books you can read two pages of one day, a few pages the next, and a few more a few days later.