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Already Dead (Cooper and Fry) Hardcover – January 1, 2013

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A summer of endless rain in the Peak District leaves the officers of Derbyshire's CID with a problem. They have discovered a man's body lying in shallow water, but torrential rain has swollen the rivers and flooded the roads, making travel difficult and forensic examination impossible.

And that's not all. The absence of DS Ben Cooper, on extended leave after an arson attack, has left a serious gap. DS Diane Fry is a reluctant temporary replacement, but now their makeshift team is about to be tested to the limit. The fatal events of one damp August night are likely to remain shrouded in mystery if they can't track down a car glimpsed only as a dark outline in the rain by a passer-by.

As the rain turns into a deluge, loyalties among the officers will be put under intolerable strain as they try to solve their toughest case yet. And that's before it emerges that Ben Cooper is not at home, but has vanished into thin air...

Packed with atmosphere, suspense and danger, bestseller Stephen Booth's exceptional new Cooper and Fry thriller is a masterclass in British crime writing.

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  1. Book 13 of 18
    Cooper & Fry Mysteries
  2. Print length
    384 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Sphere
  5. Publication date
    January 1, 2013
  6. Dimensions
    6.22 x 1.34 x 9.45 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    0751551716
  8. ISBN-13
    978-0751551716
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Stephen Booth is the internationally bestselling, CWA Dagger-winning author of twelve acclaimed thrillers featuring Cooper and Fry. The series is in development as a TV programme. Booth lives in Nottingham.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sphere; First Edition (January 1, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0751551716
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0751551716
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.44 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.22 x 1.34 x 9.45 inches
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Stephen Booth is an award winning UK crime writer, the creator of Derbyshire police detectives Ben Cooper and Diane Fry, who have appeared in 18 novels set in England's atmospheric Peak District. His latest novel DROWNED LIVES is a standalone historical thriller, a story of hidden family secrets among the inland waterways of South Staffordshire.

Stephen has been a Gold Dagger finalist, an Anthony Award nominee, twice winner of a Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel, and twice shortlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year. DC Cooper was a finalist for the Sherlock Award for the best detective created by a British author, and in 2003 the Crime Writers' Association presented Stephen with the Dagger in the Library Award for "the author whose books have given readers the most pleasure". The Cooper & Fry novels are published all around the world, and have been translated into 16 languages. The latest title in the series is FALL DOWN DEAD. Stephen is also the author of a previous standalone crime novel TOP HARD.

A former newspaper journalist, Stephen Booth was born in the Lancashire mill town of Burnley and brought up by the sea in Blackpool. He attended Birmingham City University and worked on local newspapers in the North and Midlands of England before his first novel BLACK DOG was published in 2000. He lives in Nottinghamshire.

Visit the author's website at: http://www.stephen-booth.com

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Kathi the Movie Nut
5.0 out of 5 stars I want to go to Derbyshire!
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2015
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I've worked my way through all of the previous 12 books and marked each one as a 5 on my Kindle but have written no reviews. They are all good and definitely worth reading especially if you adore British police procedurals like I do. This one was hard to get through because I could only read a few pages before I put it down - if it were more bad news, I didn't want to know. But now I do, and am writing this to finally share my opinion of these books before I move head down to #14 (and then on to #14 in September). I think Stephen Booth is an excellent author. His character building is realistic and I personally would love to go to Derbyshire (but not when it is raining). I will continue to read about Ben and Diane for as long as he cares to write about them.
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Bobby D.
4.0 out of 5 stars Good sequel to DEAD AND BURIED
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2013
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STOP! Before you read ALREADY DEAD you should have first read Booth's previous book DEAD AND BURIED. Why? Well this his latest and 12th book in the Cooper and Fry crime series is very much a sequel to 11th book. This latest could be read as a standalone but I think readers will enjoy it a great deal more having read DEAD AND BURIED and maybe even THE DEVIL'S EDGE.
I had before these two books only read one other in the Cooper and Fry series which was the first, BLACK DOG. I happened on DEAD AND BURIED via some good reviews and comments by readers complementing it ending. I enjoyed it (See my Amazon.com review) and looked forward to this new title only to find it has not been published in the United States. (I had bought DEAD AND BURIED when in London.) Luckily AMAZON lets you now order this latest book via a British bookseller. Also, should mention that Stephen Booth send out an emailed newsletter which I have enjoy reading. He appears to be very interested in building and maintaining a fan base.
For those who have followed my reviews you already know I am not much of a fan of crime novels. But I did enjoy these two books because Stephen Booth's writing is crisp and the location and characters are interesting while the plots of both books were fun. The Peak District of northern England is the local and well visualized in the series. These are not books filled with gore or serial killers running amok. They are character based who done its or what some call procedurals. (Apparently the series has been optioned for television and are "in development" whatever that might mean as when we might see them.)
There is really no way in a review to go into the major plot of these books without giving away the surprise of plot twists. This latest features endless rain throughout and starts with man found dead from apparent drowning and a mysterious man in a red raincoat. As to characters DS Ben Cooper has disappeared and the worry of his coworkers and DS Diane Fry has been demoted to fill in for him. I am a bit surprised that Fry is portrayed as unlikeable and Cooper more likeable by their police colleagues. How all this ties into the prior book is part of the fun.
My point here is to say if you want to read a couple of good books without having to commit to all 12 in the series I think these two will do the trick.
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Valeriejean
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2014
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His books are always good.
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Carol L. Rogers
5.0 out of 5 stars Another great book!
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2014
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I have read all of the Cooper and Fry novels and loved every one. I particularly like how Derbyshire and everything about it plays such a large in the story. In this novel , especially, the land and the weather mirror the despair Ben Cooper is dealing with. The mystery itself is interesting, but it is over-shadowed by the effects of Cooper's fiancee's death and the way he attempts to deal with it.

These characters really come to life in Booth's writing and I am eagerly awaiting the next book.
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Omnireader
4.0 out of 5 stars Among the best of beach reading
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2015
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I have read 14 of the Cooper and Fry series, including Already Dead. I recommend the series to friends because of Booth's success in evoking the atmosphere and folkloric past of England's Peak District. The landscape comes alive as one of the characters in the series. As a Yank, I am often overwhelmed by the hundreds of place names of tors, edges, moors, farms, cottages, villages, quarries, abandoned mines, etc. England is not an immense land but every square foot seems to bear a title and a history. Inclusion of a map of each book's locale would be a big help. Ben Cooper is a sympathetic, engaging character whose lifelong connection to the area is key to his crime-solving success. Other characters, including Diane Fry, are presented in contrast to Cooper, and, to some degree, represent a threat to his values. Cooper/Fry is not the traditional professional partnership of this genre, but once you get beyond expecting that cliche, you may find their relationship thought-provoking and, perhaps, more truthful. Congratulation to Booth on the TV serialization of his series.
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janet howard
5.0 out of 5 stars Must Read Cooper & Fry!!!
Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2014
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Already Dead, Stephen Booth's latest Cooper & Fry mystery, is quite simply brilliant! I literally could not stop reading. The combination of tight plotting, complex characters, and detailed descriptions of the Peak District of England gets better and better with each book in the series. Flooding, fraud, and murder bring Ben Cooper to the brink...This is the best mystery I have read in quite some time.
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Harley
4.0 out of 5 stars Another solid entry to this series
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2013
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I did enjoy this one even if the bold Diane is still annoying me. Poor Ben is recovering from his trauma at the end of the last book and Diane is back in Edendale annoying the residents as usual. Even poor Gavin is stuck in the police although he has now completed his 30. An interesting and consistent entry. Still full of the rich descriptive detail that characterises these books. I am impressed that Booth has managed to keep me reading these and enjoying them over 12 books now. He is one of the most consistent novelists I have come across and can hold his own with the likes of Robinson.
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Carolyn King
5.0 out of 5 stars Another good mystery!
Reviewed in Canada on December 31, 2020
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5.0 out of 5 stars Not up to the usual standard I have come to expect in the opening chapters. Opened out to be very good read later.
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Heavy going at the beginning but developed into the usual standard I have grown to expect from the author. Very good read.
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Shorina
5.0 out of 5 stars More than just another detective story
Reviewed in Germany on December 20, 2013
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There are only few books I finish in a very short span of time, but this - as usual for this series - was one of them. These books always make me sigh when I'm forced to put them down. Already Dead was very moving as it followed the personal struggles of Ben Cooper after the events in the previous book.

It's the well written main characters, different as they are, that carry Stephen Booth's stories for me. The books are never only about solving a crime, we readers get to take part in the characters' lives in the Peak District both on the job and in some aspects of their private lives.

I bought a map of the area early on in the series and I get it out for each new book. So many interesting spots from the area play important roles in the books that it's great fun to check them out.

I've recommended this series to friends in the past, and I will keep doing so. None of these books has ever let me down and I just pre-ordered the next one.
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Stanwegian
5.0 out of 5 stars Stephen Booth scales the Peak again!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 30, 2013
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'Already Dead' is the thirteenth full-length novel in the series following the career of country lad Ben Cooper and troubled city girl Diane Fry, both now sergeants in Derbyshire CID. As ever, the setting is Derbyshire's glorious Peak District, a landscape in which Cooper is totally (and literally!) at home, but which Fry, an incomer from the urban West Midlands, hates with a passion.

The book begins with the aftermath of the concluding drama of its predecessor, the excellent 'Dead and Buried'. Cooper is on extended sick leave following injuries sustained in the arson attack on a derelict moorland hostelry, in which his fiancée died. It's clear that his injuries go much deeper than the merely physical; his behaviour is uncharacteristic and at times bizarre, and his colleagues are increasingly concerned for his welfare.

Meanwhile, Fry has - to her disgust - been seconded from East Midlands Special Operations Unit to cover Cooper's absence from Edenvale Divisional CID. Frustrated by the lack of `proper' crime to exercise her talents and resentful at the unfairness of her current situation, even the discovery of a body in a remote woodland stream fails to arouse any real enthusiasm; there is no clear evidence of murder and Fry is increasingly inclined to dismiss the death as suicide. But is it?

To reveal more of the plot might prejudice the pleasure of future readers, but as is usual in Stephen Booth's novels, the progress of the investigation is far from straightforward. The tangled threads are slowly unravelled, and clues are distributed with scrupulous fairness but, as with much of the best crime fiction, this is no mere `whodunit' - the reader is also challenged to discover why the sequence of events occurred.

This is not by any means an action thriller; it might even be misleading to describe it as a page-tuner but it is certainly an absorbing tale. If you're a bed-time reader, you'll be probably be able to put the book down, but expect your mind to carry on turning over possibilities until you fall asleep! In short, it's an imaginative, solidly crafted and very enjoyable novel from one of Britain's leading crime writers.

In reviews of some of Stephen Booth's earlier novels, there has been some criticism of the amount of historic and topographic detail he includes. If you find this off-putting, it's something you'll need to take into account, though my own view is that this detail adds depth to the books. Booth obviously loves the Peak District, and his enthusiasm shines through his prose.

I've derived a great deal of pleasure from reading the entire series over the years; if 'Already Dead' isn't the best, it's certainly close to the top of the list, and I enthusiastically recommend it to anyone who enjoys solid, credible, well-crafted and challenging crime fiction.
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