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Black Dog
by: Stephen Booth

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780006514329
ISBN: 0006514324
Label: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: March 05, 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Studio: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Sales Rank: 38059

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Amazon.co.uk Review:
Stephen Booth's first novel Black Dog is an impressive portrait of two sorts of policing. Ben is a local man who knows everybody and perhap scares too much, while Diane is a stranger wherever she goes and is perhaps too cold-blooded; when they find themselves rivals for promotion, and colleagues on a difficult case, breaking strain is going to be reached sooner or later. Spoiled, young Laura Vernon is missing, soon to be found dead, and the question soon arises: is she only, or even, the first? Retired quarryman Harry found the body and perhaps knows more than he is letting on, but he will do anything rather than tell the police more than he has to. The Vernons' gardener is missing, a thuggish young man rather too fond of showing off his muscles--what does he know? What went on at the Vernons' smart cocktail parties and what do Harry and his friends talk about over their beer in the pub? This is an ingenious dark little mystery in which there may be solutions to problems, but no cures; Ben and Diane are two of the more interestingly flawed young cops of recent crime fiction. --Roz Kaveney

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Black Dog
Posh fifteen year old Laura Vernon is bumped off in the middle of the Peak District where she lives. Who did it? Who knows? That's the job of DC Ben Cooper and DC Diane Fry to solve, two police officers vying for the chance of a promotion.

This is a very traditional crime novel. There are no fancy shoot outs nor serial killers stalking the killer nor officers with a dark, tormented past. The book is focused on the lives of the officers as they try and solve the murder of Laura Vernon. The atmosphere is strong and Booth manages to create a clear, visual depiction of the setting, both physically and emotionally.

For me, and the reason I am only awarding this novel three stars, there are too many parts of this book that ... Read More:

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- Dull
Dull and not very exciting, this book is leaden, clunky and not much of a mystery. The only mystery is the large number of good reviews it gets. Still, it might make a decent TV detective as the scenery will be nice. Ho hum.

Rating:

- Decent debut
Black Dog is a decent book but after it build's up some good momentum, it is let down by a poor ending.

To be honest not much happen's in the first 450 odd page's but Stephen Booth does keep you interested with some good charecter's and a decent plotline and i was eager throughout to find out what happen's in the next page. I was hoping for a dramatic finale but was a bit gutted at the lame finish.

I will read the next chapter in the serie's but this one fell just short of four star's.

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- A Really Tense Thriller

A newspaper and magazine journalist for over 25 years, Stephen Booth was born in the English Pennine town of Burnley. He was brought up on the coast at Blackpool, where he began his career in journalism by editing his school magazine and wrote his first 'novel' at the age of 13.

Laura Vernon is an intelligent, vivacious young teenager, but now she is missing in the peak District. The local police mount a full-scale search operation, but it is not them who finally find her. Harry Dickinson, a retired lead miner is the man who finally finds the body and for some reason known only to him he seems bent on obstructing the police investigation.

Even her parents are holding something back. What could be more important ... Read More:

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- First Book in the Series

A newspaper and magazine journalist for over 25 years, Stephen Booth was born in the English Pennine town of Burnley. He was brought up on the coast at Blackpool, where he began his career in journalism by editing his school magazine and wrote his first 'novel' at the age of 13.

Laura Vernon is an intelligent, vivacious young teenager, but now she is missing in the peak District. The local police mount a full-scale search operation, but it is not them who finally find her. Harry Dickinson, a retired lead miner is the man who finally finds the body and for some reason known only to him he seems bent on obstructing the police investigation.

Even her parents are holding something back. What could be more important ... Read More:

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