By Stephen Booth
An atmospheric new Fry and Cooper mystery for fanatics of Peter Robinson and Reginald Hill A may possibly financial institution vacation within the top District is ruined through the tragic drowning of an eight-year-old lady in picturesque Dovedale. For Detective Constable Ben Cooper, a helpless witness to the tragedy, the incident isn't just demanding, yet leads him to get entangled within the tangled lives of the Neilds, the useless girl's relatives. As he will get to understand them, Cooper starts to suspect that one among them is harbouring a mystery - a mystery that the complete kin can be prepared to hide up. in the meantime, Detective Sergeant Diane Fry has a trip of her personal to make - a trip again to her roots. As she reveals herself drawn into an research of her personal one of the inner-city streets of Birmingham, Fry realises there's just one individual she will depend upon to supply the assistance she wishes. yet that guy is Ben Cooper, and he is again in Derbyshire, the place his suspicions are best him in the direction of a stunning discovery at the banks of one other top District river.
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She probably fell and hit her head on a stone. ’ ‘There’s hardly going to be any trace evidence,’ said Wragg irritably. ‘The stone is somewhere out there being washed by thousands of gallons of water every second. ’ There had been no blood on the girl when he’d picked her up. But Cooper remembered seeing the wound now, an abrasion and broken skin on her forehead. The toughest thing he’d ever done was putting that body down, handing the little girl over to someone else. It felt like abandoning her to her fate.
The noises merged inside his head with an echo of the screaming. The noise still bounced off the sides of his skull in the same way it had rico-cheted among the caves and pinnacles of Dovedale. He still didn’t know who had screamed. Perhaps it was the mother. Or it might just have been some random bystander, reacting with horror to a glimpse of a body in the water. A small, white face. ’ The tall uniformed sergeant was called Wragg. Cooper remembered him vaguely, and thought he’d probably turned up at a couple of major incidents in E Division when he was still a PC.
We need to thank you,’ he said. ‘No. There’s no need, sir. ’ His thanks made Cooper’s throat tighten with a surge of emotion that he struggled to hide. ‘You tried,’ said Nield. ‘You did your best for our little girl. Yes, you did your best. ’ Cooper smiled. But when he looked the man directly in the eyes, his smile faded. He recognized him now. This was the man he’d seen on the bank of the River Dove, hands raised as if in blessing. Yet a few minutes later, Nield had been standing in a little group with his family.