A puzzle from beginning to end and a great read. Apart from the police, all the characters involved are living in fear and you sit on tenterhooks with them. Set in the Peak District and starring Detectives Fry and Cooper of his previous books, it’s first rate crime stuff.
Similar this month: None but try June Hampson.
Comparison: Peter Robinson, Reginald Hill, Peter James.
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It was an ordinary house fire with tragic consequences: a wife and two children dead. But then for DC Fry and DS Cooper the ordinary always meant trouble.
Trouble like a grieving husband behaving as though his life is in danger. Trouble like a shocking assassination – of an old woman living alone in a quiet Peak District village. Her death suggests that even the most harmless people have cause to expect the unexpected.
But Fry and Cooper are certainly surprised to find a link between the two incidents, one that will take them halfway across Europe and back again in their search for the truth.
Along the way, they discover some of the reasons why people can be scared to live – and the connection at the heart of the enquiry [that] proves to be the most surprising revelation of all…
Scared to Live features in the following genres: Crime and Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
Scared to Live is available in Paperback (a Format)
Scared to Live was written by Stephen Booth and published by Harpercollins Publishers
Scared to Live has 630 pages
Yes it is part of Cooper and Fry Crime Series series
£11.69
