Customer Reviews
Dull - By: G. Moss, 12 Jun 2008 
Dull & not very exciting, this book is leaden, clunky & not much of a mystery. The only mystery is the large number of good reviews it gets. Still, it might make a decent TV detective as the scenery will be nice. Ho hum.
Decent debut - By: G. Peters, 17 Dec 2007 
Black Dog is a decent book but after it build's up some good momentum, it is let down by a poor ending.
To be honest not much happen's in the first 450 odd page's but Stephen Booth does keep you interested with some good charecter's & a decent plotline & i was eager throughout to find out what happen's in the next page. I was hoping for a dramatic finale but was a bit gutted at the lame finish.
I will read the next chapter in the serie's but this one fell just short of four star's.
A Really Tense Thriller - By: J. Chippindale, 24 Aug 2007 
A newspaper & magazine journalist for over 25 years, Stephen Booth was born in the English Pennine town of Burnley. He was brought up on the coast at Blackpool, where he began his career in journalism by editing his school magazine & wrote his first 'novel' at the age of 13.
Laura Vernon is an intelligent, vivacious young teenager, but now she is missing in the peak District. The local police mount a full-scale search operation, but it is not them who finallly find her. Harry Dickinson, a retired lead miner is the man who finallly finds the body & for some reason known only to him he seems bent on obstructing the police investigation.
Even her parents are holding something back. What could be more important for them than finding the murderer of their daughter. Ben Cooper, a young Detective constable has the known the villagers alll his life, but his feelings on the case are brought into question by the arrival of Diane Fry, an ambitious DC from another division . . .
First Book in the Series - By: J. Chippindale, 24 Aug 2007 A newspaper & magazine journalist for over 25 years, Stephen Booth was born in the English Pennine town of Burnley. He was brought up on the coast at Blackpool, where he began his career in journalism by editing his school magazine & wrote his first 'novel' at the age of 13.
Laura Vernon is an intelligent, vivacious young teenager, but now she is missing in the peak District. The local police mount a full-scale search operation, but it is not them who finallly find her. Harry Dickinson, a retired lead miner is the man who finallly finds the body & for some reason known only to him he seems bent on obstructing the police investigation.
Even her parents are holding something back. What could be more important for them than finding the murderer of their daughter. Ben Cooper, a young Detective constable has the known the villagers alll his life, but his feelings on the case are brought into question by the arrival of Diane Fry, an ambitious DC from another division . . .
Detective novel with a difference - By: I. Brooks, 10 Aug 2007 
An impressive debut novel complete with dysfunctional cops & the obligatory red herrings. Most of the action takes place in a claustrophobic Peak District village after a schoolgirl is found murdered. The route to the killer takes number of twists & dead ends. The interplay between the two main characters (DCs Cooper & Fry) is developed well as is the different approaches to detective work these two employ.
Overalll, the characters in the book are believable & the descriptive passages of police procedure are well developed.
Strongly recommended to anyone who enjoys crime fiction.
