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Stephen Booth (born 1952) is an English crime-writer. He is the author of the Derbyshire-set Cooper and Fry series.

Booth in 2021
Born	1952 (age 69–70) Burnley, Lancashire, England
Alma mater	Birmingham City University
Genre	Crime fiction
Website
stephen-booth.com/index.htm

Early and personal life

Booth was born in Burnley, Lancashire, the son of Jim and Edna Booth. At the age of two, he moved with his parents to Blackpool[1] where he attended Arnold School.[2] He lives with his wife Lesley in Retford, Nottinghamshire.[3][4]

Career

For over 27 years, he was a journalist for various newspapers and magazines including the Wilmslow Advertiser, Huddersfield Examiner, and the Worksop Guardian. He also worked as a sub-editor for the Daily Express and The Guardian.[5] In 2001 he gave this up to be a full-time novelist.[6]

Bibliography

Cooper and Fry series, about two young Derbyshire police detectives, Ben Cooper and Diane Fry, as they try to solve various murders:

1. Black Dog (2000)[7]
2. Dancing with the Virgins (2001)
3. Blood on the Tongue (2002)
4. Blind to the Bones (2003)
5. One Last Breath (2004)
6. The Dead Place (2005)
7. Scared to Live (2006)
8. Dying to Sin (2007)
9. The Kill Call (2009)
10. Lost River (2010)
11. The Devil's Edge (2011)
12. Dead and Buried (2012)
13. Already Dead (2013)[8]
14. The Corpse Bridge (2014)
15. The Murder Road (2015)
16. Secrets of Death (2016)
17. Dead in the Dark (2017)
18. Fall Down Dead (2018)

Ben Cooper novella:

• Claws (2007)[9]

Stand-alone novels:

1. Top Hard (2011)[5]
2. Drowned Lives (2019)

Awards and nominations

• 2001 – Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel: Black Dog
• 2001 – Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist): Dancing with the Virgins
• 2002 – Barry Award for Best British Crime Novel: Dancing With the Virgins
• 2003 – Dagger in the Library[10]
• 2006 – Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award (shortlist): One Last Breath
• 2007 – Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award (shortlist): The Dead Place

References

External links

• Official Website

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