A mysterious phone call from an obsessed killer keeps Detective Diane Fry on edge while her partner Detective Constable Ben Cooper is searching for the identity of a skeleton found in the woods. Not realizing that their cases may be related, the two find their suspects coinciding on multiple levels.
As the two move through the clues, bodies start to stack up; although, not fresh bodies. Fry works through the killer's messages as Cooper looks for the identity of the first skeleton. Funeral parlors, obsessed professors and an old crypt help to decipher the messages. As more messages arrive, the two detectives discover more about death than they ever wanted to know
English novelist Stephen Booth gives readers the sixth book in the Ben Cooper/Diane Fry mystery set in England's Peak District. This series just keeps getting better and better. Fry is as unlikable as ever and Cooper is the epitome of a good guy. A good example of the good- cop/bad-cop routine. I enjoyed learning a bit more about death and the references Booth used when describing smells and areas. This book was a quick read for its length and at times slow-paced, however it's worth it in the end to find out how everything intertwines.
βThis killing will be a model of perfection. An
accomplishment to be proud of. And it could be tonight or
maybe next week. But it will be soon. I promise.β
The anonymous phone calls indicate a disturbed mind with an
unnatural passion for death. Cooper and Fry are hoping
against hope that the caller is just a harmless crank
having some sick fun. But the clues woven through his
disturbing messages point to the possibility of an all-too-
real crime . . . especially when a woman vanishes from an
office parking garage.
But itβs the mystery surrounding an unidentified female
corpse left exposed in the woods for over a year that
really has the detectives worried. Whoever she might have
been, the dead woman is linked to the mystery caller, whose
description of his twisted death rituals matches the
bizarre manner in which the body was found. And the mystery
only deepens when Cooper obtains a positive I.D. and learns
that the dead woman was never reported missing and that she
definitely wasnβt murdered. As the killer draws them closer
into his confidence, Ben and Diane learn everything about
his deadly obsessions except what matters most: his
identity and the identity of his next victim. . . .
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