Stephen Booth Books in Order

Council officer Chris Buckley brushes off an eccentric old man who begs for help mending a long‑running family feud. After the man is murdered, Chris is drawn into secrets buried in Lichfield’s canals, where past betrayals still have the power to drown the present.

A guided walk on Kinder Scout ends with walker Faith Matthew plunging from a fog‑shrouded edge. The group insists it was an accident, but Cooper suspects a shove rather than a slip, and soon learns several hikers had reasons to want Faith out of the way.

Tourists are turning up dead at beauty spots across the Peak District in what look like carefully planned suicides. DI Ben Cooper must find the link between them before the next body appears, while in Nottingham Diane Fry hunts a missing witness who may hold the key.

Ten years after Reece Bower was cleared of murdering his wife, he suddenly vanishes and his new partner begs the police for help. To find him, Ben Cooper has to reopen the old case and search treacherous caves and abandoned mines where bodies can lie hidden for decades.

In the isolated hamlet of Shawhead, there is only one narrow road in and out. When a feed lorry is found jammed under a bridge, its cab smeared with blood and the driver missing, Ben Cooper uncovers a community bound together by old tragedies and new lies.

For centuries mourners carried coffins over the Corpse Bridge to a riverside burial ground, now earmarked for redevelopment by a local aristocrat. When bodies start appearing on and near the route, Cooper and Fry investigate whether the deaths are protest, coincidence or calculated murder.

After weeks of relentless rain, a naked male body is found in a flooded ditch, his clothes and wallet neatly nearby. With Ben Cooper on leave after a devastating arson attack, Diane Fry leads the inquiry, unaware that Cooper is following a dangerous trail of his own.

Wildfires rip across the Peak District, threatening an abandoned hilltop inn that has stood empty for years. When the smoke clears, firefighters uncover a long‑hidden body, and Cooper and Fry must untangle arson, missing people and a past someone was desperate to bury.

In 1998 Nottinghamshire, ex‑offender Stones McClure thinks one more job hijacking a lorry will finally set him up. Instead he finds himself caught between old grudges, dangerous partners and a community still scarred by the miners’ strike, where trusting anyone can be fatal.

A gang of home invaders dubbed the Savages targets wealthy houses below a brooding ridge known as the Devil’s Edge. After one raid leaves a woman dead and another neighbour literally scared to death, Cooper and Fry must work out who is really pulling the strings.

During a busy bank‑holiday trip to Dovedale, an eight‑year‑old girl drowns before Ben Cooper can reach her. Traumatized, he is drawn into her family’s secrets, while a second death by water suggests the tragedy may be part of something darker.

On a rain‑lashed moor, foxhounds discover the body of a well‑dressed stranger, yet an anonymous caller insists the corpse lies elsewhere. Cooper and Fry delve into the charged world of hunting, saboteurs and horse dealing, where old loyalties can turn lethal.

Conversion work at remote Pity Wood Farm turns up a human hand, then two skeletons buried years apart. With only scraps of local gossip and the opaque Sutton brothers to go on, Cooper and Fry must piece together who was buried there and why.

Seconded to the Rural Crime Squad, Ben Cooper investigates wildlife offences on the Dark Peak. An illegal haul found in a terraced house leads him into a bitter struggle over protected birds and moorland, where the line between protector and predator keeps shifting.

A shut‑in is shot dead through her bedroom window, and hours later a house fire kills a mother and two children on the same hillside. Working parallel investigations, Cooper and Fry uncover a link that points toward a meticulous, unpredictable killer.

An anonymous caller obsessed with death phones the police promising a perfectly executed killing. When women begin to disappear and unexplained human bones surface, Cooper and Fry race to identify the dead place the caller keeps talking about before he strikes again.

Thirteen years after confessing to murdering his lover, Mansell Quinn walks out of prison and disappears. As those who helped convict him start to die, Cooper and Fry search Derbyshire’s cave systems and buried scandals before vengeance claims another life.

A young man from the notorious Oxley family is found bludgeoned to death on the moors, while evidence resurfaces in a two‑year‑old missing student case. Cooper and Fry probe the bleak village of Withens, where almost everyone has something to hide.

In a bitter Derbyshire winter, a young woman is found frozen in the snow, a dead man turns up by the roadside, and a visitor arrives seeking answers about a wartime bomber crash. Cooper and Fry uncover how old secrets still bleed into the present.

After a woman is left horribly scarred near the Nine Virgins stone circle and a cyclist’s body is later arranged among the monoliths, Cooper and Fry must sift local legends, jealousies and rituals to unmask a killer using the landscape as stage.

When teenager Laura Vernon goes missing in the Peak District and is later found murdered, local DC Ben Cooper is paired with prickly newcomer Diane Fry. Their uneasy partnership exposes old grudges, class tensions, and a close‑knit village full of dangerous secrets.