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Booth, Stephen
by Black Dog: A Crime Novel
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 068487301X
- ISBN 13
- 9780684873015
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About This Item
New York. 2000. October 2000. Scribner. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 068487301x. 351 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Marc Cohen. keywords: Mystery England. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Every once in a while a new writer comes along with the voice, the passion, the originality, and the humanity to become a star. Such a writer is Stephen Booth, whose debut suspense novel Black Dog is already a bestseller in Britain. It's a long, hot summer in Northern England's Peak District, where police helicopters darken blue skies and drown out the sound of birdsong. Fifteen-year-old Laura Vernon, smart, sexy, and the keeper of many secrets, is missing. Possibly she has run off to London. Possibly she's dead. The police search, the wealthy parents wait by the phone. Detective Constable Ben Cooper quietly dreads the worst. When retired miner Harry Dickinson and his black Labrador find the body lying in the woods, Harry's strangely obstinate refusal to cooperate with the investigation raises more than a few eyebrows. What about the parents? Graham Vernon is a man who knows all about secrets. What are he and his glamorous wife holding back? Ben Cooper, who lives with a personal tragedy and who has known the villagers all his life, finds himself uneasily teamed with an ambitious newcomer, Detective Constable Diane Fry, who has her own secrets. As Ben and Diane begin a complicated dance of suspicion, attraction, and frustration, they discover that to understand the present, they must also understand the past. Loyalty, betrayal, friendship, family -- what do they mean, and what happens when loyalties clash? In the tradition of Reginald Hill, Minette Walters, Barbara Vine, and Peter Robinson, this richly textured, evocative, stylish novel marks the auspicious debut of a major crime-writing talent. inventory #28381 ISBN: 068487301x.
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- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28381
- Title
- Booth, Stephen
- Author
- Black Dog: A Crime Novel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 068487301X
- ISBN 13
- 9780684873015
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2000
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