Free (Kindle) Blood on the Tongue (Ben Cooper & Dianne Fry) by Stephen Booth

[mitford13]

Excited to see this one - this is a series I've been reading in DTB for years...


Blood on the Tongue (Ben Cooper & Dianne Fry) - Stephen Booth

http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Tongue-C.../dp/B0087WN366


The 3rd novel in the multiple award-winning Cooper & Fry series, set in England's beautiful and atmospheric Peak District.

It wasn’t the easiest way to commit suicide. Marie Tennent seems to have curled up in the freezing snow on Irontongue Hill and stayed there until her body was frosted over like a supermarket chicken. And hers isn’t the only death the Derbyshire police have to contend with – not after the discovery of a baby in the wreckage of an old Airforce bomber, and the body of a man dumped by the roadside.

As if three bodies on her hands isn’t enough, snow and ice have left half of ‘E’ Division out of action, and Detective Sergeant Diane Fry is forced to partner with DC Gavin Murfin. She and Ben Cooper were never a match made in heaven - but, next to Murfin, working with Ben starts to look like a dream.
Cooper is on a trail of his own, though – and one as cold as the Peak District January.

In an equally bitter winter in 1945 an RAF bomber crashed on Irontongue Hill, killing everyone except the pilot, who walked away and disappeared. Now the pilot's grand-daughter is in Derbyshire desperate to clear his name, and Ben can’t help taking an interest.

But is a fifty-year-old mystery really the best use of police time? Or does a vicious attack in the dark Edendale back streets prove that the trail isn't quite so cold as he thought?

Could the past be the only clue to present violence as an icy winter looks set to get even chillier?

[HarryT]

How annoying. A British book, but not free on Amazon UK.

[koland]

Originally Posted by HarryT

How annoying. A British book, but not free on Amazon UK.

It is self-published. Perhaps he didn't retain the UK e-publishing rights (since Amazon requires those who self-publish and use the KLL/KDP/Freebie system to publish in all regions where they have rights and set the same free price in all regions (if rights are held).

[mitford13]

I noticed in the last couple of years that I could only get Booth's releases from the UK (I used Book Depository), so would guess he's still under contract there where he probably has more sales and, as koland mentions, is now trying to sell on his own here in the US.

[HarryT]

Makes sense - thanks.

[carpetmojo]

Originally Posted by HarryT

How annoying. A British book, but not free on Amazon UK.

And it looks interesting.... oh bother !
Thanks for saving me having to find out for myself, Harry.

[mitford13]

Another in the Ben Cooper/Dianne Fry series is free on Amazon US today:

Dying to Sin - Stephen Booth

Dying to Sin

The 8th novel in the multiple award-winning Cooper & Fry series, set in England's beautiful and atmospheric Peak District.

When builder's labourer Danny Ward is asked to dig the foundations for a new wall during the conversion of Pity Wood Farm, he doesn't expect to find a human hand preserved in the clay. And when the police arrive to dig up the farmyard, they don't expect to find not one body, but two – with several years between their burials.

DS Diane Fry and DC Ben Cooper are part of the Derbyshire CID team tasked with piecing together the lives of the Sutton family who owned the farm before it was sold for development. Why would a pair of elderly brothers have the dead bodies of two women concealed on their property? And how do you even start tracking down decades of itinerant farm workers who might be able to cast light on the mystery?

[mitford13]

The fifth in this series is free on Amazon US today:

One Last Breath by Stephen Booth

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Breath-Co...dp/B008MBTNSY/

Please be careful if you download though; there apparently is another Kindle version for $6.99. My link is for the free version, or you can use the ASIN to search:
B008MBTNSY


The vast labyrinth of caverns, passages and subterranean rivers beneath the Peak District are a major tourist attraction. But this summer not all the darkness is underground, and not all the devils are folk legends. Mingling with the visitors is a convicted killer, bent on revenge.

Fourteen years ago Mansell Quinn was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his lover. Now he's out under licence, whereabouts unknown, and his ex-wife has been murdered.

As they try to anticipate the fugitive's next move, Derbyshire detectives Diane Fry and Ben Cooper become increasingly puzzled by the case. Why did Quinn's two friends refuse to back up his alibi? And why did nobody visit him in prison for the last ten years of his sentence? Nobody, that is, except one of those two friends: ex-soldier Will Thorpe, now living rough somewhere in the Hope Valley.

Overstretched and unable to apprehend a killer who moves around the area with impunity, the police can do little but warn other potential victims to be on their guard. But the case is about to become much more personal for DC Ben Cooper…

* A number 18 Sunday Times bestseller in the UK

[amward]

Bummer, apparently not for Australians either.

[NightBird]

Originally Posted by mitford13

The fifth in this series is free on Amazon US today:

One Last Breath by Stephen Booth

http://www.amazon.com/Last-Breath-Co...dp/B008MBTNSY/

Please be careful if you download though; there apparently is another Kindle version for $6.99. My link is for the free version, or you can use the ASIN to search:
B008MBTNSY


The vast labyrinth of caverns, passages and subterranean rivers beneath the Peak District are a major tourist attraction. But this summer not all the darkness is underground, and not all the devils are folk legends. Mingling with the visitors is a convicted killer, bent on revenge.

Fourteen years ago Mansell Quinn was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his lover. Now he's out under licence, whereabouts unknown, and his ex-wife has been murdered.

As they try to anticipate the fugitive's next move, Derbyshire detectives Diane Fry and Ben Cooper become increasingly puzzled by the case. Why did Quinn's two friends refuse to back up his alibi? And why did nobody visit him in prison for the last ten years of his sentence? Nobody, that is, except one of those two friends: ex-soldier Will Thorpe, now living rough somewhere in the Hope Valley.

Overstretched and unable to apprehend a killer who moves around the area with impunity, the police can do little but warn other potential victims to be on their guard. But the case is about to become much more personal for DC Ben Cooper…

* A number 18 Sunday Times bestseller in the UK

Free again.

[Keslynn]

Originally Posted by mitford13

Blood on the Tongue (Ben Cooper & Dianne Fry) - Stephen Booth

http://www.amazon.com/Blood-Tongue-C.../dp/B0087WN366


The 3rd novel in the multiple award-winning Cooper & Fry series, set in England's beautiful and atmospheric Peak District.

It wasn’t the easiest way to commit suicide. Marie Tennent seems to have curled up in the freezing snow on Irontongue Hill and stayed there until her body was frosted over like a supermarket chicken. And hers isn’t the only death the Derbyshire police have to contend with – not after the discovery of a baby in the wreckage of an old Airforce bomber, and the body of a man dumped by the roadside.

As if three bodies on her hands isn’t enough, snow and ice have left half of ‘E’ Division out of action, and Detective Sergeant Diane Fry is forced to partner with DC Gavin Murfin. She and Ben Cooper were never a match made in heaven - but, next to Murfin, working with Ben starts to look like a dream.
Cooper is on a trail of his own, though – and one as cold as the Peak District January.

In an equally bitter winter in 1945 an RAF bomber crashed on Irontongue Hill, killing everyone except the pilot, who walked away and disappeared. Now the pilot's grand-daughter is in Derbyshire desperate to clear his name, and Ben can’t help taking an interest.

But is a fifty-year-old mystery really the best use of police time? Or does a vicious attack in the dark Edendale back streets prove that the trail isn't quite so cold as he thought?

Could the past be the only clue to present violence as an icy winter looks set to get even chillier?

Free again.