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Blood on the Tongue
by: Stephen Booth

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780007130665
ISBN: 000713066X
Label: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Number Of Pages: 400
Publication Date: April 07, 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Studio: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Sales Rank: 37023

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Proper page turner
I've been meaning to get around to Stephen Booth's work for a while now and I'm pleased that I finally managed it. This a satisfying, complex thriller, full of twists and turns that keeps you reading [and guessing] for over 600 pages - quite a feat. Booth has come up with an endearing pair of mismatched detectives in Cooper and Fry and a solid supporting cast of cops, villains and Peak District eccentrics. I've read and enjoyed most of Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks books - another police procedural with a rural England setting - and Booth is in the same league. The Derbyshire settings add to the enjoyment [as a native of that county] and are well integrated into the story.

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- how a thriller should be
this is the first time I have read anything by Stephen Booth and I will be looking out for more. This crime thriller spun a web of intrigue which was hard to leave to do the mundane things like eat, drink and go to work, let alone sleep, all with the most impeccable writing and characterisation. A lesson to all crime writers, this is the way to do it.

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- Brilliant
This is the best in the series so far, I think. So far I have ben reading them in the right order, and while I enjoyed the first two, this one surpasses them by a mile. I did find it a little bit slow to begin with but once I got into it, I loved the mystery from the past as well as the present, it's all quite fascinating. Even though it's 600+ pages I read it in a couple of days because these books are so easy to read you just don't want to put them down. There's something very comfortable about them, they're so full of normal English settings, regular people living in typical English homes, with the odd nasty murderer thrown in for good measure.

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- Not everybody swears
How wonderful to be able to read a griity crime novel without having to suffer bad grammer and bad language. There is nothing to detract you from the story so you are hooked from page 1.
Well done Mr Booth; a lesson to all novelists.

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- Terrific Psychological 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.

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