Secrets of death / Stephen Booth.

By:

Booth, Stephen, 1952- [author,, writer of introduction.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Booth, Stephen, Ben Cooper and Diane Fry ; book 16.Description: 394 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

9780751559989
9780751560008

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Detective and mystery stories.

DDC classification:

823.92 23

Summary: A beautiful place to die ...Residents of the Peak District are used to tourists descending on its soaring hills and brooding valleys. However, this summer brings a different kind of visitor to the idyllic landscape, leaving behind bodies and secrets. A series of suicides throughout the Peaks throws Detective Inspector Ben Cooper and his team in Derbyshire's E Division into a race against time to find a connection to these seemingly random acts - with no way of predicting where the next body will turn up. Meanwhile, in Nottingham Detective Sergeant Diane Fry finds a key witness has vanished...But what are the mysterious Secrets of Death? And is there one victim whose fate wasn't suicide at all?

Tags from this library:

Suicide (1) ,
death (1) ,
euthanasia (1) ,
murder mystery (1) ,
mystery (2)

Average rating: 4.0 (1 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Suspense	Hāwera LibraryPlus Fiction	Fiction	BOOT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out	26/04/2023	I2156241

Total holds: 0

A beautiful place to die ...Residents of the Peak District are used to tourists descending on its soaring hills and brooding valleys. However, this summer brings a different kind of visitor to the idyllic landscape, leaving behind bodies and secrets. A series of suicides throughout the Peaks throws Detective Inspector Ben Cooper and his team in Derbyshire's E Division into a race against time to find a connection to these seemingly random acts - with no way of predicting where the next body will turn up. Meanwhile, in Nottingham Detective Sergeant Diane Fry finds a key witness has vanished...But what are the mysterious Secrets of Death? And is there one victim whose fate wasn't suicide at all?

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Comment by Jennifer

15/04/2020

I enjoyed this story even though it was challenging at times. The book looks at some of the reasons for suicide and methods. It raises questions about euthenasia and what can be found on the internet

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