Name: Blood on the Tongue

Author: Stephen Booth
Year: 2002
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Mystery, Crime, Fiction

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9780743457835
9780007796618
0743457838
0007796617
The weather is cold and the clues no warmer as Peak District detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry tackle a medley of mysteries--each one knottier than the last--in English author Stephen Booth's haunting third novel, Blood on the Tongue. The unidentified body of a dead man has turned up on a frosty roadside. An abused woman is found curled in the snow on nearby Irontongue Hill, an apparent suicide. And there's the lingering puzzle of a Royal Air Force bomber that crashed into Irontongue back in 1945, killing everyone on board except for the pilot, who reportedly walked away from the wreckage... and was never heard from again. With leave and sickness decimating the ranks of the Edendale police force, all hands are needed to solve the modern deaths. But constable Cooper finds himself distracted by the World War II tragedy, in large part because of a beguiling young Canadian, the granddaughter of that missing pilot, who's come to Edendale determined to clear her ancestor's name.

Not surprisingly, these various cases eventually intertwine. But how they're linked by time and tragedy provides the intrigue here. Equally involving is the prickly alliance between Cooper, the "too bloody nice" local lad, and his superior, the emotionally guarded outsider, Fry. Plotted for maximum psychological suspense, teeming with singular secondary characters, and capitalizing on Britain's still-poignant memories of the last world war, Blood on the Tongue is an ambitious and remarkably mature work that delivers on the promise Booth showed in his first novel, Black Dog. --J. Kingston Pierce


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"The Corpse Bridge"
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"Already Dead"
First published in 2013
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"Dead and Buried"
First published in 2012
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"Lost River"
First published in 2010
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"Scared to Live"
First published in 2006
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"The Dead Place"
First published in 2005
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"One Last Breath"
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"Blind to the Bones"
First published in 2003
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"Dancing with the Virgins"
First published in 2001
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"Black Dog"
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"Dying to Sin"
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