The Kill Call
Written by Stephen Booth
Narrated by Will Thorpe
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An atmospheric new thriller for fans of Peter Robinson and Reginald Hill.
On a rain-swept Derbyshire moor, hounds from the local foxhunt find the body of a well-dressed man whose head has been crushed. Yet an anonymous caller reports the same body lying half a mile away. Called in to investigate the discovery, detectives DS Diane Fry and DC Ben Cooper become entangled in the violent world of hunting and hunt saboteurs, horse theft and a little-known sector of the meat trade.
As Fry follows a complex trail of her own to unravel the shady business interests of the murder victim, Cooper realizes that the answer to the case might lie deep in the past. History is everywhere around him in the Peak District landscape – particularly in the ‘plague village’ of Eyam, where an outbreak of Black Death has been turned into a modern-day tourist attraction.
But, even as the final solution is revealed, both Fry and Cooper find themselves having to face up to the disturbing reality of the much more recent past.
Stephen Booth
Stephen Booth's fourteen novels featuring Cooper and Fry, all to be published by Witness, have sold over half a million copies around the world.
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Reviews for The Kill Call
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Not one of the best. I did in fact find it quite boring.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This series is deeply focused on the area (the Peak district), its history, its geography, its people. The mysteries are well thought out, and effective at keeping you guessing. And such interesting characters.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is the ninth in the Cooper & Fry crime series set in the Derbyshire Dales and Stephen Booth has once more written a fast-paced and thought-provoking story for his readers.This one concerns the vexed question of fox hunting,about which nearly everyone in the UK has strong opinions.There are also aspects of the story which concern the meat trade,which will unsettle many readers.. WARNING - not to be read during meal times.In addition to the crime (or rather crimes) is the continuing by-play between the two main characters,Ben Cooper and Diane Fry. It is this that makes these books much more than simply a series of excellent crime novels and raises them to a much higher level altogether.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The discovery of a body in the vicinity of a fox hunt, and near where animal rights protesters have been seen provides an intriguing puzzle. A phone call reporting the death has been made from a mobile, the caller not identifying himself, and the body supposedly in a building half a mile away from where it has been discovered. And why has the body, one Patrick Rawson, a horse dealer, driven out to this isolated spot? Who was he meeting? And is there a connection to the hunt?The story doesn't actually begin with this incident but with the reading of a page from a journal from 40 years before. The connection between this journal, with pages popping up occasionally, and the main action, begs for explanation for most of the novel. In those days, there were always just the three of us. Three bodies close together, down there in the cold, with the water seeping through the concrete floor, and a chill striking deep into flesh and bone. The three of us, crouching in the gloom, waiting for a signal that would never come.The hunt for a murderer leads Dianne Fry and Ben Cooper, tension always crackling between them as Cooper tries to help Fry who is facing demons he doesn't understand, on a path from the local fox hunt, to the horse meat trade, to Britain's preparations 40 years before for a nuclear cataclysm. It is a complex path, complicated by the relationships between various characters. I've probably come away knowing a lot more about fox hunting, the horse meat industry, and even the workings of the police force than I really needed to know, but I've come away feeling that I've had a thorough immersion. Make no mistake - it all works together well.There were many voices for the narrator Will Thorpe to produce, but I need to comment here on what I feel was a mistake. It is not a problem you'll notice if you read a paper copy of the book. However the voice that Thorpe chose to give Dianne Fry is dreadful and sounds as if she is speaking with her epiglottis half closed, and a peg on her nose. If you think it's just my hearing check what others have said.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another very atmospheric story set in the author's familiar Peak District landscape, where a man is found dead near a meeting of the local hunt - is there a connection? Fry and Cooper begin looking into the background of the dead man and find no shortage of people who might want him dead. As is usual with Stephen Booth, a very evocative sense of location and character stand out in this tale weaving between current and past until the link is made with history. Recommended.