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Love, Danger, Homecomings & Heart β€” Your June Reading Escape Starts Here

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One disastrous night. One devastating man. One diabolical proposition.


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He’s stubborn. She’s tougher. His kid? Already picked the bride.


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A small-town second chance wrapped in danger, desire, and Sharon Sala heart.


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She came home to save the ranch… and found the cowboy she never forgot.


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From reality TV heartbreak to real-life reinvention.


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A missing twin. A deadly cartel. One K-9 team caught in the crossfire.


Scared To Live by Stephen Booth

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Also by Stephen Booth:

Dead in the Dark, October 2018
e-Book
Secrets of Death: A Cooper and Fry Mystery, April 2017
e-Book
The Murder Road, November 2015
Paperback / e-Book
The Corpse Bridge, December 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
Already Dead, November 2014
e-Book
Dead and Buried, October 2014
Hardcover / e-Book
The Devil's Edge, September 2014
Paperback / e-Book
Lost River, July 2014
e-Book
Dying to Sin, May 2014
e-Book
The Dead Place, March 2014
e-Book (reprint)
Dancing with the Virgins, April 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Scared To Live, May 2008
Hardcover
The Dead Place, May 2007
Hardcover
One Last Breath, July 2006
Hardcover
Blind to the Bones, June 2006
Paperback (reprint)
Blood on the Tongue, September 2003
Paperback (reprint)
Dancing with the Virgins, October 2002
Paperback (reprint)
Black Dog, November 2001
Paperback (reprint)

SCARED TO LIVE
By: Stephen Booth

Cooper & Fry mystery
Bantam
May 2008
On Sale: May 20, 2008
Featuring: Det. Sergeant Diane Fry; Det. Constable Ben Cooper
432 pages
ISBN: 0385339070
EAN: 9780385339070
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Mystery Police Procedural | Thriller Police Procedural

With One Last Breath and The Dead Place, Stephen Booth has taken his place both among β€œthe elite British crime writers” and as a master of psychological suspense. Now Detective Constable Ben Cooper and Detective Sergeant Diane Fry must uncover the secrets of two grim murder scenes in England’s Peak Districtβ€”one inexplicable…and the other unspeakable.

How do you investigate the murder of a woman without a life? That is the challenge facing Cooper and Fry when a reclusive agoraphobic is found shot to death in her home by someone who took an exceptional amount of care in executing her murder. With no friends, no family, and virtually no contact with the outside world, the dead woman may have simply been an unlucky victim of a random homicide. Or was she hiding from a past that had finally come out of hiding to kill her?

At virtually the same time, a raging house fire claims the life of a young mother and two of her children. But as the debris is cleared, troubling questions remain in the ashes. Among them, how did the fire start, where was the husband at two a.m. the day of the blaze, and was it really the fire that killed his family?

Now, as Cooper faces the reemergence of a dark secret he’d hoped to forget, and Fry copes with problems both personal and professional, a horrific possibility begins to take shape: what if the two investigations are somehow connected? A killer is stalking the Peak District whose motives are a mystery and whose methods are unpredictable. And his next victims could very well be the only two cops who can stop him.

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